SEVERAL MORE DEFENSES

Spring is a season of many defenses!

Congratulations to Nate Arnett, who successfully passed his qualifying exam with his project “Subject encodings and retrieval interference, evaluating the cost”. The committee was Adrian Brasoveanu, Sandy Chung, Matt Wagers (Chair), and Eve Zyzik (Outside Member). Nate moves to all-but-dissertation (ABD) status!

Sara Cantor successfully defended her qualifying paper and master’s thesis, “Ungrammatical Double-Island Sluicing as a Diagnostic of Left-Branch Positioning”. The committee was Pranav Anand, Sandy Chung, and Jorge Hankamer (Chair). Congratulations!

Tommy Denby successfully defended his master’s thesis, “The Filtering Listener: Dispersion in Exemplar Theory”. The committee was Pranav Anand, Grant McGuire (Co-Chair), and Jaye Padgett (Co-Chair). Congratulations!

Congratulations to Adam Morgan for successfully defending his qualifying paper and master’s thesis, “Bridging the Gap between Production and Judgment of English Resumptive Pronouns. The committee consisted of Pranav Anand, Jim McClosekey, and Matt Wagers (Chair). This project has been accepted as a poster at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference this September (AMLaP 2013) in Aix-Marseille Université.

Congratulations to Peter Fabian, who passed his phonology qualifying paper “Iambic-trochaic reversal in Cusco Quechua” on June 6. The committee consisted of Pranav Anand, Armin Mester (chair), and Jaye Padgett.

Clara Sherley-Appel successfully defended her qualifying paper entitled, “Multimodal cue integration in speech processing”. Her QP committee consisted of Adrian Brasoveanu, Grant McGuire (chair), and Jaye Padgett. Congratulations!