Ph.D. Recipients

Ph.D. Degrees awarded since 1965
Department of Linguistics
UCLA

Listed in reverse chronological order.  To find particular names, please use the search option on your browser.

Obtaining dissertations of UCLA Ph.D's


 

Sameer ud Dowla Khan

(2008, Sun-Ah Jun, chair) Intonational Phonology and Focus Prosody of Bengali

 

Leonard Chacha Mwita

(2008, Russell Schuh, chair) Verbal Tone in Kuria

 

Kuniko Nielsen

(2008, Patricia Keating and Colin Wilson, co-chairs) Word-level and Feature-level Effects in Phonetic Imitation

 

Katrina Tang

(2008, Russell Schuh and Kie Zuraw, co-chairs) The Phonology and Phonetics of Consonant-Tone Interaction

 

David Schueler

(2008, Daniel Büring, chair) The Syntax and Semantics of Implicit Conditionals: Filling in the Antecedent

 

Andrew Martin

(2007, Kie Zuraw, chair) The Evolving Lexicon

 

Nathan Klinedinst

(2007, Philippe Schlenker, chair) Plurality and Possibility

 

Jeffrey Heinz

(2007, Edward Stabler, chair) Inductive Learning of Phonotactic Patterns

 

Shabnam Shademan

(2007, Susan Curtiss and Bruce Hayes, co-chairs) Grammar and Analogy in Phonotactic Well-Formedness Judgments

 

Greg Kobele

(2006, Edward Stabler, chair). Generating Copies: An Investigation into Structural Identity in Language and Grammar

 

Jill Gilkerson

(2006) Acquiring English Particle Verbs: Age and Transfer Effects in Second Language Acquistion

 

Dimitrios Ntelitheos

(2006) The Morphosyntax Of Nominalizations: A Case Study

 

Christina Esposito

(2006, Patricia Keating, chair). The Effects of Linguistic Experience on the Perception of Phonation

 

Brook Lillehaugen

(2006, Pamela Munro, chair).  Expressing Location in Tlacolula Valley Zapotec.

 

John Foreman

(2006, Pamela Munro and Tim Stowell, co-chairs). The Morphosyntax of Subjects in Macuiltianguis Zapotec

 

Jason Kandybowicz

(2006, Hilda Koopman, chair). Conditions on Multiple Copy Spell-Out and the Syntax Phonology Interface.

 

Timothy Arbisi-Kelm

(2005, Sun-Ah Jun, chair) An Intonational Analysis of Disfluency Patterns in Stuttering

 

Eric Jackson

(2005, Pamela Munro, chair) Resultatives, Derived Statives, and Lexical Semantic Structure

 

Heidi Fleischhacker

(2005, Bruce Hayes and Donca Steriade, co-chairs) Similarity in Phonology: Evidence from Reduplication and Loan Adaptation

 

Harold Torrence

(2005, (Hilda Koopman, chair) On the Distribution of Complementizers in Wolof

 

Leston Buell

(2005, Hilda Koopman, chair) Issues in Zulu Verbal Morphosyntax

 

Ying Lin

(2005, Patricia Keating and Edward Stabler, co-chairs) Learning Features and Segments from Waveforms: A Statistical Model of Early Phonological Acquisition

 

Dan Albro

(2005, Edward Stabler, chair) Studies in Computational Optimality Theory, With Special Reference to the Phonological System of Malagasy

 

Rebecca Scarborough

(2005, Patricia Keating, chair) Coarticulation and the Structure of the Lexicon

 

Haiyong Liu

(September 2004; Anoop Mahajan and Tim Stowell, co-chairs) Complex Predicates in Mandarin Chinese: Three Types of Bu-Yu Structures

 

Jason Riggle

(2004; Edward Stabler, chair) Generation, Recognition, and Learning in Finite State Optimality Theory

 

Sahyang Kim

(2004; Sun-Ah Jun, chair) The role of prosodic phrasing in Korean word segmentation

 

Heriberto Avelino

(2004, Pamela Munro, chair) Topics in Yala´lag Zapotec, with particular reference to its phonetic structures

 

Alex MacBride

(December 2003; Bruce Hayes and Donca Steriade, co-chairs) A Constraint-Based Approach to Morphology

 

Ivano Caponigro

(June 2003; Daniel Büring, chair) Free Not to Ask: On the Semantics of Free Relatives and Wh-Words Cross-linguistically

 

Gianluca Storto

(June 2003; Daniel Büring, chair) Possessives in Context: Issues in the Semantics of Possessive Constructions

 

Masangu Matondo

(June 2003; Tom Hinnebusch and Donca Steriade, co-chairs) Tone and Prosodic Morphology in Kisukuma

 

Mary Baltazani

(October 2002; Sun-Ah Jun, chair) Quantifier Scope and the Role of Intonation in Greek

 

Adam Albright

(June 2002; Bruce Hayes and Donca Steriade, co-chairs) The Identification of Bases in Morphological Paradigms

 

Melissa Epstein

(May 2002; Pat Keating and Jody Kreiman, co-chairs) Voice Quality and Prosody in English

 

Brenda Joyce-Clark

(December 2001; Anoop Mahajan, chair) Noun Classifiers

 

Stefano Vegnaduzzo

(October 2001; Ed Keenan, chair) A Partition Semantics for Temporal Adverbs

 

Hendrik Harkema

(September 2001; Ed Stabler, chair) Parsing Minimalist Languages

 

Taehong Cho

(August 2001; Pat Keating and Sun-Ah Jun, co-chairs) Effects of Prosody on Articulation in English

 

Christina Foreman

(August 2001; Sun-Ah Jun, chair) The Use of Contrastive Focus by High-Functioning Children with Autism

 

Edward Garrett

(January 2001; Carson Schutze and Dominique Sportiche, co-chairs) Evidentiality and Assertion in Tibetan

 

Jie Zhang

(June 2001; Donca Steriade, chair) The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Contour Tone Distribution -- Typological Survey and Formal Analysis

 

J. Matt Pearson

(December 2000; Ed Keenan and Timothy Stowell, co-chairs) "The Clause Structure of Malagasy: A Minimalist Approach"

 

Victoria Anderson

(August 2000; Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson, co-chairs)"Giving Weight to Phonetic Principles: The Case of Place of Articulation in Western Arrente"

 

Misha Becker

(August 2000; Nina Hyams and Ed Stabler, co-chairs) "The development of the copula in child English: The lightness of be"

 

Peter Hallman

(August 2000; Dominique Sportiche, chair) "The Structure of Predicates: Interactions of Derivation, Case and Quantification"

 

Marco Baroni

(July 2000; Bruce Hayes, chair) "Distributional Cues in Morpheme Discovery: A Computational Model and Empirical Evidence"

 

Alhaji Maina Gimba

(June 2000; Russ Schuh, chair) "Topics in Bole Verb Morphology"

 

Kie Ross Zuraw

(June 2000; Donca Steriade and Bruce Hayes, co-chairs) "Patterned Exceptions in Phonology"

 

Katherine Crosswhite

(December, 1999; Bruce Hayes, chair) "Vowel Reduction in Optimality Theory"

 

Sean Fulop

(July 1999; Ed Stabler, chair) "On the Logic and Learning of Language"

 

Matthew Gordon

(1999; Bruce Hayes, chair) "Syllable Weight: Phonetics, Phonology and Typology"

 

Kimberly Thomas-Vilakati

(June 1999; Tom Hinnebusch and Ian Maddieson, co-chairs) "Coproduction and Coarticulation in Isizulu Clicks"

 

Felicia Lee

(June 1999; Tim Stowell and Pam Munro, co-chairs) "Antisymmetry and the Syntax in San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec"

 

Harold Crook

(1999; Donca Steriade and Pam Munro, co-chairs) "The Phonology and Morphology of Nez Perce Stress"

 

Kelly Stack

(1999; Susie Curtiss, chair) "Innovation by a Child Acquiring Signing Exact English II"

 

Mari Sakaguchi

(1998; Tim Stowell, chair) "Distributivity in English and Japanese"

 

Susan Hess

(1998; Pat Keating and Ian Maddieson, co-chairs) "Pharyngeal Articulations"

 

Robert Kirchner

(1998; Donca Steriade, chair) "An Effort-Based Approach to Consonant Lenition"

 

Manuel Espanol-Echevarria

(1998; Tim Stowell, chair) "The Syntax of Purposive Expressions"

 

Barbara Blankenship

(1997; Pat Keating, chair) "The Time Course of Breathiness and Laryngealization in Vowels"

 

Brian C. Potter

(Sept. 1997; Dominique Sportiche and Pam Munro, co-chairs) "Wh/Indefinites and the Structure of the Clause in Western Apache"

 

Javier J. Gutierrez Rexach

(1997; Ed Keenan, chair) "Quantification, Context Dependence, and Generalized Minimalist Grammer: Studies on the Interpretation of Clitic Proforms and Existential Determiners in Spanish"

 

Margaret R. MacEachern

(July 1997; Donca Steriade, chair) "Laryngeal Cooccurrence Restrictions"

 

Jeannette C. Schaeffer

(Jan. 1997; Nina Hyams, chair) "Direct Object Scrambling in Dutch and Italian Child Language"

 

Richard A. Wright

(Aug. 1996; Patricia Keating, chair) "Consonant Clusters and Cue Preservation in Tsou"

 

Deogratias S. Ngonyani

(Aug. 1996; Hilda Koopman, chair) "The Morphosyntax of Applicatives"

 

Roderic F. Casali

(May 1996; Donca Steriade, chair) "Resolving Hiatus"

 

Murat Kural

(May 1996; Tim Stowell, chair) "Verb Incorporation and Elementary Predicates"

 

Tomiko Hayashi

(March 1996; Paul Schachter, chair) "The Syntactic and Semantic Structures of Complex Predicate Constructions in Japanese"

 

Michael P. Dukes

(Jan. 1996; Ed Keenan, chair) "On the Nonexistence of Anaphors and Pronominals in Tongan"

 

Nhlanhla L. Thwala

(Dec. 1995; Dominique Sportiche and Tim Stowell, co-chairs) "A Generative Grammar of Si-Swati: Morphology and Syntax of Nouns and Verbs"

 

Dorit Ben-Shalom

(Dec. 1995; Ed Keenan and Ed Stabler, co-chairs) "Semantic Trees"

 

Michael A. Nkemnji

(Dec. 1995; Hilda Koopman and Russ Schuh, co-chairs) "Heavy Pied-Piping in Nweh"

 

Stephen M. Adewole

(Sept. 1995; Russ Schuh, chair) "Yoruba Word Formation Processes"

 

Tetsuya Sano

(Sept. 1995; Nina Hyams, chair) "Roots in Language Acquisition: A Comparative Study of Japanese and European Languages"

 

Lawan Danladi Yalwa

(Aug. 1995; Russ Schuh, chair) "Issues in the Syntax of Hausa Complementation"

 

Filippo Beghelli

(Aug. 1995; Anna Szabolcsi, chair) "The Phrase Structure of Quantifier Scope"

 

Susan L. Banner Inouye

(July 1995; Patricia Keating, chair) "Trills, Taps, and Stops in Contrast and Variation"

 

Edward S. Flemming

(June 1995; Donca Steriade, chair) "Auditory Representations in Phonology"

 

Robert E. Hagiwara

(July 1995; Peter Ladefoged, chair) "Acoustic Realizations of American /r/ as Produced by Women and Men"

 

Bonny E. Sands

(July 1995; Ian Maddieson and Tom Hinnebusch, co-chairs) "Evaluating Claims of Distant Linguistic Relationships: The Case of Khoisan"

 

Daniel D. Silverman

(July 1995; Donca Steriade, chair) "Phasing and Recoverabilitiy"

 

Aaron M. Shryock

(July 1995; Russ Schuh and Ian Maddieson, co-chairs) "Investigating Laryngeal Contrasts: An Acoustic Study of the Consonants of Musey"

 

Abigail R. Kaun

(May 1995; Bruce Hayes, chair) "The Typology of Rounding Harmony: An Optimality Theoretic Approach"

 

Seungho Nam

(March 1995; Ed Keenan, chair) "The Semantics of Locative Prepositional Phrases in English"

 

Jongho Jun

(Feb. 1995; Donca Steriade, chair) "Perceptual and Articulatory Factors on Place Assimilation"

 

Kaoru Ohta

(Dec. 1994; Tim Stowell, chair) "Verbal Nouns in Japanese"

 

William B. Dolan

(Sept. 1994; Ed Stabler, chair) "Context-Freeness and the Lexicon"

 

Hiroyuki Nagahara

(Aug. 1994; Bruce Hayes, chair) "Phonological Phrasing in Japanese"

 

Dani M. Byrd

(April 1994; Patricia Keating, chair) "Articulatory Timing in English Consonant Sequences"

 

Andi Wu

(March 1994; Ed Stabler, chair) "The Spell- Out Parameters: A Minimalist Approach to Syntax"

 

Stephan M. Schuetze-Coburn

(Jan. 1994; J. Du Bois and Pamela Munro, co-chairs) "Prosody, Syntax, and Discourse Pragmatics: Assessing Information Flow in German Conversation"

 

Hyunoo Lee

(Aug. 1993; Ed Keenan, chair) "Categories, Structures, and Principles of Anaphoric Dependencies"

 

Bonnie H. Chiu

(Jan. 1993; Hilda Koopman, chair) "The Inflectional Structure of Mandarin Chinese"

 

Karen K. Wallace

"Verb Incorporation and Agreement in Crow," 12/92 (P. Munro, chair)

 

John-Dongwook Choi

Phonetic Underspecification and Target- Interpolation: An Acoustic Study of Marshallese Vowel Allophony, 11/92 (P. Keating, B. Hayes, chairs)

 

Laura D. Crain

Clause Chaining in Nepali Discourse, 5/92 (P. Schachter, S. Thompson, chairs)

 

Thomas L. Cornell

Description Theory, Licensing Theory, and Principle-Based Grammars and Parsers, 5/92 (V. Fromkin, E. Stabler, chairs)

 

Daniel Valois

The Internal Syntax of DP, 12/91 (D. Sportiche)

 

Lukowa Kidima

Tone and Accent in KiYaka, 10/91 (B. Hayes, chair)

 

Chris Golston

Both Lexicons, 9/91 (V. Fromkin, D. Steriade, chairs)

 

Peter N. Landerman

Quechua Dialects and their Classification, 8/91 (G. Bedell, chair)

 

Vicki M. Carstens

The Morphology and Syntax of Determiner Phrases in Kiswahili, 7/91 (T. Stowell, chair)

 

Sarah N. Dart

Articulatory and Acoustic Properties of Apical and Laminal Articulations, 3/91 (P. Ladefoged, chair)

 

Jack B. Martin

The Determination of Grammatical Relations in Syntax, 2/91 (T. Stowell, chair)

 

Linda L. Arvanites

The Glottalic Phonemes of Proto-Eastern Cushitic, 1/91 (R. Anttila, chair)

 

Kasangati K.W. Kinyalolo

Syntactic Dependencies and the SPEC- head Agreement Hypothesis in KiLega, 1/91 (H. Koopman, D. Sportiche, chairs)

 

Hyo Sang Lee

Tense, Aspect, and Modality: A Discourse-Pragmatic Analysis of Verb Affixes in Korean from a Typological Perspective, 12/90 (P. Munro, S. Thompson, chairs)

 

Catherine A. Jackson

The Grammatical Consequences of Early Focal Damage to the Left Hemisphere of the Brain, 12/90 (S. Curtiss, V. Fromkin, chairs)

 

George Aaron Broadwell

Extending the Binding Theory: A Muskogean Case Study, 6/90 (P. Munro, T. Stowell, chairs)

 

James J. Tyhurst

Logical Forms for English Sentences, 6/90 (E. Keenan, chair)

 

Feng-Hsi Liu

Scope Dependency in English and Chinese, 6/90 (E. Keenan, chair)