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PhD Alumni
2021
Saja Albuarabi
Dissertation: The Syntax of Negation in Iraqi Arabic
Abdullah Alsubhi
Dissertation: The Development of Case Morphology and Sentential Word Order in Arabic as a Second Language: A Processability Perspective
Ruqayyah Althubyani
Dissertation: The Effect of Shadowing in Learning L2 Segments: A Perspective from Phonetic Convergence
2020
Mohammed Abuhaib, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia
Dissertation: Remarks on Modern Standard Arabic Construct State and Quantification
Turki Alwahibee, Assistant Professor, College of Languages and Translation, Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia
Dissertation: Simple Subject-Verb Agreement: a Morphosyntactic Path to Arabic Variations
2019
Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Middle East University, Jordan
Dissertation: Logical Form in the Second Language: An Investigation into Quantification in Interlanguage
Yasser Albaty, Lecturer in Linguistics, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia
Dissertation: Modality, Control and Restructuring in Arabic
Salem Albuhayri, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Dissertation: Information Structure in Standard Arabic Verbal Sentences
Amal El Haimeur, Assistant Teaching Professor of Arabic and African and African-American Studies, University of Kansas
Dissertation: The Acquisition of Morphology in Moroccan Heritage Speakers in France
2018
Yahya Aldholmi, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Dissertation: Segmental Contributions to Speech Intelligibility in Nonconcatenative vs. Concatenative Languages
Reham Alhammad, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia
Dissertation: The Role of the Syllable Contact Law-Semisyllable (SCL-SEMI) in the Coda Clusters of Najdi Arabic and Other Languages
Maria Teresa Bonfatti Sabbioni
Dissertation: Italian as a Heritage Language Spoken in the US
2017
Bader Yousef Alharbi, Assistant Professor of English and Linguistics, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia
Dissertation: The Syntax of Copular Clauses in Arabic
2016
Juman Al Bukhari, Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of North Georgia
Dissertation: The Syntax of Elliptical Constructions in Jordanian Arabic
Zafer Lababidi, Assistant Teaching Professor of Arabic and Assistant Director and Advisor, Middle Eastern Studies Program, Florida State University
Dissertation: The L2 Perceptual Mapping of Arabic and English Consonants By American English Learners
Liya Mar, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, University of Texas at Arlington
Dissertation: Covert Contrast: the Acquisition of Mandarin Tone 2 and Tone 3 in L2 Production and Perception
2015
Siriporn Lerdpaisalwong, Lecturer, Foreign Languages, Kasetsart University, Thailand
Dissertation: Perception Training of Thai Learners: American English Consonants and Vowels
Abdellatif Oulhaj, Associate Professor, Defense Critical Language and Culture Program, University of Montana
Dissertation: The Developmental Stages of the Acquisition of Arabic By Adult English-speaking Learners: Processability Theory and the Formulaic Language
2014
Albert Krahn
Dissertation: A New Paradigm for Punctuation
Kelsie Pattillo, German Teacher, Elm Grove School District, Wisconsin
Dissertation: Cross-Linguistic Metonymies in Human Limb Nomenclature
2013
Dola Algady, Assistant Professor, Sohar University, Oman
Dissertation: The Acquisition of Relative Clauses: How Do Second Language Learners of Arabic Do It?
Alison Garcia, Lecturer in Spanish, Carroll University
Dissertation: Allophonic Variation in the Spanish Sibilant Fricative
MA Alumni
2021
Eunryoung Cho
Thesis: Fundamental frequency and news topics of newscaster speech
Rachel Elizabeth Confair
Thesis: Fricative voicing in Texan and Wisconsin English
Joshua Harmon, ESL instructor, Appleton, WI
Thesis: The effect of speech production on novel L2 sound training
2020
2019
Joseph Moran
Thesis: Determining factors in second language acquisition of English modals
2018
Tanner LeTourneau
2017
Nicole Desjarlais
Thesis: Actions speak louder than words: A study of the variable use of quotatives in Milwaukee, WI
Laura Kiskunas
Thesis: Perception of a foreign accent in L2: A study of Arabic and Korean speakers of English
2016
Dylan Pearson, PhD student, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University
Jacklyn Ryan, PhD student, Department of Linguistics, UWM
Thesis: I’m like, “You have an attitude”: The behaviors of be like and its users
2015
Amara Sankhagowit, teacher, Friendship Public Charter School
Thesis: Distribution of tone phonemes in Thai
2014
Yahya Aldholmi
Thesis: Reconsideration of the seven predicates followed by three accusatives in Standard Arabic
Ruth Corddry
Thesis: Ironic speech perception and dyslexia
Laurel Schenkoske
2013
Meagan Dailey
Thesis: An exploration of the motivations behind Hawu vowel metathesis
2012
Humaid Al Wahaibi
Thesis: Subject positions in Bedouin Omani Arabic
MA TESOL Alumni
2021
Jaume Aguilo Ramos
Lilly Vang