Department of Linguistics

Alumni

Recent Alumni (since 2006)

Diogo Almeida (PhD 2009) Form, meaning and context in lexical access: MEG and behavioral evidence [D. Poeppel]
Postdoc at UC Irvine CogSci (2009-2010)
Assistant Professor at Michigan State University (from 2010)

Stacey Conroy (PhD 2008) The Role of Verification Strategies in Semantic Ambiguity Resolution in Children and Adults [J. Lidz]
Design company founder

Clare Stroud (PhD 2008) Structural and Semantic Selectivity in the Electrophysiology of Sentence Comprehension [C. Phillips]
Associate Program Officer at the National Academy of Sciences

Chunyuan Jing (PhD 2008) Pragmatic Computation in Language Acquisition [J. Lidz]

Ivan Ortega-Santos (PhD 2008) Projecting Subjects in Spanish and English [J. Uriagereka]
Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Memphis

Matt Wagers (PhD 2008) The structure of memory meets memory for structure in linguistic cognition [C. Phillips]
Department of Psychology, New York University (2008-2009)
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz (from fall 2009)

Stephan Greene (PhD 2007) Spin: Lexical Semantics, Transitivity, and the Identification of Implicit Sentiment [P. Resnik]
Senior Software Engineer, Natural Language Processing Group, ATG Inc.

Pritha Chandra (PhD 2007) (Dis)Agree: Movement and Agreement Reconsidered [N. Hornstein]
Assistant Professor, IIT, Delhi

Takuya Goro (PhD 2007) Language-Specific Constraints on Scope Interpretation in First Language Acquisition [C. Phillips]
Postdoc, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Ibaraki University, Japan

Lisa Pearl (PhD 2007) Necessary Bias in Natural Language Learning [A. Weinberg]
Assistant Professor, CogSci, UC Irvine

Jon Sprouse (PhD 2007) A program for experimental syntax: Finding the relationship between acceptability and grammatical knowledge [H. Lasnik]
Assistant Professor, CogSci, UC Irvine

Maria Chait (PhD 2006) Auditory edge detection: the dynamics of the construction of auditory perceptual representations [D. Poeppel and J. Simon]
Postdoc, University College, London
Lecturer (= Asst Prof.), University College, London

Rob Fiorentino (PhD 2006) Lexical Structure and the Nature of Linguistic Representations [D. Poeppel]
Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Kansas

Tomohiro Fujii (PhD 2006) Some Theoretical Issues in Japanese Control [H. Lasnik]
Postdoc, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan
Lecturer (= Asst Prof.), Faculty of Foreign Languages, Daito Bunka University

Scott Fults (PhD 2006) The structure of comparison: an investigation of gradable adjectives [P. Pietroski]
Postdoc, UMIACS, University of Maryland

Lydia Grebenyova (PhD 2006) Multiple Interrogatives: Syntax, Semantics and Learnability [H. Lasnik]
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Program in Linguistics, Baylor University

Youngmi Jeong (PhD 2006) The Landscape of Applicatives [N. Hornstein]
Library Information Science program at Simmons College (with a fellowship)

Huan Luo (PhD 2006) Tracking Sound Dynamics in Human Auditory Cortex: New macroscopic perspectives from MEG [D. Poeppel]
Research Scientist, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Utako Minai (PhD 2006) Everyone Knows, Therefore Every Child Knows: An Investigation of Logico-semantic Competence in Child Language [J. Lidz and P. Pietroski]
Postdoc, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo
Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Kansas (from 2009)

Hajime Ono (PhD 2006) An Investigation of Exclamatives in English and Japanese: Syntax and Sentence Processing [H. Lasnik]
Postdoc, Hiroshima University, Japan
Lecturer (=Asst Prof), Department of Foreign Languages, Kansai Gaidai University

Leticia Pablos (PhD 2006) Pre-verbal Structure Building in Romance Languages and Basque [C. Phillips and J. Uriagereka]
Postdoc, Department of Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, UK

Usama Soltan (PhD 2006) On Formal Feature Licensing in Minimalism: Aspects of Standard Arabic Morphosyntax [J. Uriagereka]
Visiting Assistant Professor, International Studies and Arabic, Middlebury College (VT)
Assistant Professor, International Studies and Arabic, Middlebury College (VT)

Masaya Yoshida (PhD 2006) Constraints and Mechanisms in Long-Distance Dependency Formation [C. Phillips]
Visiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University (spring 2007)
Postdoc, Psychology, University of Edinburgh (from summer 2007)
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University (from fall 2008)

Alumni Dissertation & Contact Information

Sachiko Aoshima (PhD 2003) The Grammar and Parsing of Wh-Dependencies [C. Phillips & A. Weinberg] website
Mark Arnold (PhD 1995) Case, Periphrastic do and the Loss of Verb Movement in English [D. Lightfoot]  
Margaret Antonisse (PhD 2000) Processing Temporals and Locatives in a Licensing Parser [S. Crain] e-mail
Juan Carlos Castillo (PhD 2001) Thematic Relations between Nouns [J. Uriagereka] e-mail
Ilhan Cagri (PhD 2005) Minimality and Turkish Relative Clauses [N. Hornstein] website
Rachel Channon (PhD 2002) Signs are single segments: phonological representations and temporal sequencing in ASL and other sign languages [L. Lombardi] e-mail
Qiming Chen (PhD 1996) The Structure of Noun Phrases in Chinese and its Consequences [N. Hornstein]  
Li-ling Chuang (PhD 1998) Long-distance Anaphora and Multiple Feature Checking: A Minimalist Approach [D. Lightfoot]  
Catherine Cravero-Dolan (PhD 1997) Parametric Change in French [D. Lightfoot]  
Mona Diab (PhD 2003) Word Sense Disambiguation Within a Multilingual Framework [P. Resnik] e-mail
John Drury (PhD 2005) Alternative Directions for Minimalist Inquiry: Expanding and Contracting Phases of Derivation [J.Uriagereka] e-mail
Jeanne Downey-Vanover (PhD 1994) Adult Access to Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition [D. Lightfoot]  
Rikardo Etxepare (PhD 1998) The Syntax of Illocutionary Force [J. Uriagereka] e-mail
Haruka Fukazawa (PhD 1999) Theoretical implications of OCP effects on features in Optimality Theory [L. Lombardi] e-mail
Ana Gouvea (PhD 2003) Processing Syntactic Complexity: Cross-linguistic Differences and ERP Evidence [D. Poeppel]  
Kleanthes Grohmann (PhD 2000) Prolific Peripheries: A Radical View from the Left [N. Hornstein]  
Andrea Gualmini (PhD 2003) The Ups and Downs of Child Language: Experimental studies of Children's Knowledge of Entailment Relations and Polarity Phenomena [S. Crain]  
Max Guimarães (PhD 2004) Derivation and Representation of Syntactic Amalgams [J. Uriagereka]  
Patricia Hironymous (PhD 1999) Selection of the optimal syllable in an alignment-based theory of sonority [L. Lombardi] e-mail
Joel Hoffman (PhD 1996) Syntactic and Paratactic Word Order [J. Uriagereka]  
Soo-Min Hong (PhD 2005) 'Exceptional' Case-marking and Resultative Constructions [N. Hornstein]  
Masaaki Kamiya (PhD 2003) Japanese Event Nouns and Their Categories [P. Pietroski] e-mail
Nina Kazanina (PhD 2005) The Acquisition and Processing of Backwards Anaphora [C. Phillips]  
Hirohisa Kiguchi (PhD 2002) Unchained Syntax [N. Hornstein]  
Joung-Ran Kim (PhD 1994) Korean Topic Construction [N. Hornstein]  
Kwang-Sup Kim (PhD 1998) (Anti-)Connectivity [N. Hornstein] e-mail
Masaaki Kamiya (PhD 2003)   website
Stefan Martin (PhD 1992) Topics in the Syntax of Non-Standard English [N. Hornstein]  
Akemi Matsuya (PhD 2001) Complex Verb Formation and Control [N. Hornstein] e-mail
Paola Merlo (PhD 1992) Modularity and Information Content Classes in Principle-based Parsing [A. Weinberg] e-mail
Luisa Meroni (PhD 2005) Putting Children in Context [S. Crain] e-mail
Viola Miglio (PhD 1999) Interactions between markedness and faithfulness in vowel systems [L. Lombardi] e-mail
Frida Morelli (PhD 2000) The phonotactics and phonology of obstruent clusters in Optimality Theory [L. Lombardi] e-mail
Bruce Morén (PhD 1999) Distinctiveness, coercion, and sonority: a unified theory of weight [L. Lombardi]  
Nobue Mori (PhD 2005) A Syntactic Structure of Lexical Verbs [J. Uriagereka]  
Mitsue Motomura (PhD 2004) 'Zibun' As a Residue of Overt A-movement [N. Hornstein]  
Alan Munn (PhD 1993) Topics in the Syntax and Semantics of Coordinate Structures [N. Hornstein] e-mail
Elixabete Murgia (PhD 2004) Syntactic Identify and Locality Restrictions on Verbal Ellipsis [J. Uriagereka]  
Keiko Muromatsu (PhD 1998) On the Syntax of Classifiers [J. Uriagereka] e-mail
Julien Musolino (PhD 1998) Universal Grammar and the Acquisition of Semantic Knowledge: An experimental investigation into the acquisition of quantifier-negation interaction in English [S. Crain] e-mail
Jairo Nunes (PhD 1995) The Copy Theory of Movement and Linearization of Chains in the Minimalist Program [J. Uriagereka] e-mail
Acrisio Pires (PhD 2001) The Syntax of Gerunds and Infinitives. Subjects, Case and Control [N. Hornstein] e-mail
Susan Powers (PhD 1996) The Growth of the Phrase Marker: Evidence from Subjects [D. LeBeaux] e-mail
Cilene Rodrigues (PhD 2004) Impoverished Morphology and A-movement out of Case Domains [N. Hornstein] website
Itziar San Martin (PhD 2004) On Subordination and the Distribution of PRO [J. Uriagereka]  
Fred Savarese (PhD 1999) Studies in Coreference and Binding [R. Thornton]  
Cristina Schmitt (PhD 1996) Aspect and the Syntax of Noun Phrases [J. Uriagereka] e-mail
C. Scholten (PhD 1988) Principles of Universal Grammar and the Auxiliary Verb Phenomenon [D. Lightfoot]  
Suzanne Stevenson (PhD 1994) A Competitive Attachment Model for Resolving Syntactic Ambiguities in Natural Language Parsing [A. Weinberg]  
Caro Struijke (PhD 2000) Existential Faithfulness: A study of TETU, dissimilation, and feature movement [L. Benua] e-mail
Yi-ching Su (PhD 2001) Scope and Specificity in Child Language: A Cross-Linguistic Study on English and Chinese [S. Crain] e-mail
S. Suh (PhD 1994) The Syntax of Korean and its Implications for Parsing Theory [P. Gorrell]  
Graciela Tesan (PhD 2005) What do children have in their heads? Functional heads and parameter setting in child language [R. Thornton]  
Ellen Thompson (PhD 1996) The Syntax of Tense [J. Uriagereka]  
Spyridoula Varlokosta (PhD 1994) Issues on Modern Greek Sentential Complementation [N. Hornstein] e-mail
Virginie van Wassenhove (PhD 2004) CORTICAL DYNAMICS OF AUDITORY-VISUAL SPEECH: A FORWARD MODEL OF MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION [D. Poeppel and K. Grant]  
Jianxin Wu (PhD 1999) Syntax and Semantics of Quantification in Chinese [N. Hornstein]  
J. Xu (PhD 1993) An I-Parameter and its Consequences [N. Hornstein]