Chair

Lauren Squires.  (w/J.Boland) Sociolinguistic Perception and Syntactic Variation.  Defended, May 2011.

Brook Hefright.  Language contact and ideology among the Bai.  Defended, April 2011

Sai Samant.  Adolescents and the Northern Cities Vowel Shift.  Defended, Dec. 2010

Vera Eremeeva:  More than just ethnic.  Negotiation of ethnicity through language among Russian German re-settlers and Jewish refugees from the former Soviety Union.  University of Michigan, Joint PhD in German and Linguistics. Defended, Dec. 2008

Lisa Del Torto.  Ci arrangiamo:  The realities of shift-maintenance negotiation in an Italian-Canadian community .  Defended, August 2008

Rizwan Ahmad.  The sociolinguistics of Hindi and Urdu. Defended, August 2007

Jennifer Nguyen (with L. Milroy):  Class, language change and African-American English: A longitudinal variationist account .  University of Michigan, Linguistics. Dec. 2005.

Erik Schleef:  Tag questions in German and American English Academic Discourse.  University of Michigan, Joint PhD in German and Linguistics. Defended Aug. 2005

Committee Member

Sarah Swofford. The Effect of Language Ideology on Southern, Rural Students Transition to Higher Education. University of Michigan, English and Education Defended, April 2015.

Selin Gulgoz.  Gender typicality among low SES urban Turks. University of Michigan, Psychology. Defended, February 2015.

Jennifer Hall. Language variation in Morocco. University of Michigan, Anthropology. Defended, Dec. 2014

Erika Alpert. Matchmakers and the Construction of Gender in Japan. University of Michigan, Anthropology. Defended, April 3, 2014.

Erica Beck. Acquisition and perception of dialect. University of Michigan, Linguistics. Defended, September 2013

Joseph Tyler. Prosody and Discourse Structure. University of Michigan, Linguistics. Defended, April 2012.

Kevin McGowan. The phonetics of social bias. University of Michigan, Linguistics. Defended, August 2011.

Susan Lin. Effects of prosodic structure on relative timing of speech gestures.  University of Michigan, Linguistics.  Defended, May 2011.

Claire Insel. Hünsrückish: German in Brazil.  University of Michigan, Anthropology.  Defended, Jan 2011.

Chris Odato.  The acquisition and perception of discourse marking ‘like’ in young children.  University of Michigan, Linguistics.  Defended, August 2010

Taryn Hakala. Curious Renderings:  Oral and Written Dialect in Victorian Narrative.  University of Michigan, English Dept.  Defended, July 2010

Anna Babel.  Language contact and register variation in Bolivia.  University of Michigan, Linguistics and Anthropology.  Defended, April 2010

Adile de Leon.  German-Turkish film and Literature. University of Michigan, German Studies. Defended, Sept. 2009

Medha Tare.  Metapragmatic awareness in young bilinguals.  University of Michigan. Psychology.  Defended, August 2008

Katherine Chen:  Code-switching in Hong Kong.  University of Michigan, Linguistics. Defended, Dec. 2007

Wilfredo Valentin-Marquez:  Spanish-English bilingualism in two Puerto Rican communities.  University of Michigan, Linguistics and Romance Languages and Literatures.  Defended July 2007

Deanna Davidson:  Language and Political Participation in the former East Germany.  University of Michigan, Anthropology. Defended, Feb. 2007

Mark Sicoli:  Prosody and language maintenance and shift.  University of Michigan, Linguistics and Anthropology. Defended, April 2006

Ashley Williams:  Chinese-English bilingualism.  University of Michigan, Linguistics. Defended May 2005

Dushy Mendis:  Metaphor in Academic Discourse.  University of Michigan, Linguistics, Defended Dec. 2003

Marc Pierce: Syllables and Siever’s Law in Scandanavian and Old Norse.  University of Michigan, Germanic Linguistics, Defended December 2001.

Ruth Goetz:  Code-switching among the Dai.  University of Michigan, Linguistics, Defended May 2001

Amanda Doran:  Language use and identity in a bilingual community:  Mexican American English prosody.  University of Texas at Austin, Linguistics.  Defended April, 2001.

Ana Osterman:  “Yes, you did a stupid thing”:  Gender and Institutional Discourse.  University of Michigan, Linguistics.  Defended Sept., 2000

Bruce Spencer: Language shift and standardization in Early Modern German.  University of Michigan, Germanic Linguistics. Defended May, 2000

Esim Erdim:  Translating Turkish novels into English:  Issues of language and poetics.  Kent State University, English. 1999