Summer dissertations defended

Four PhD students defended their dissertations at the end of spring quarter or over the summer:

• Andrew Hedding: “How to move a focus: The syntax of alternative particles” (June 7)
• Benjamin Eischens: “Tone, phonation, and the phonology-phonetics interface in San Martín Peras Mixtec” (June 8)
• Nick van Handel: “The sound of silence: Investigations of implicit prosody” (June 30)
• Andrew Angeles: “Recursivity, prosodic adjunction, and the role of informativeness in Kansai Japanese compound nouns” (August 25)

Congratulations to all four, and best of luck in your future pursuits!