Numerous defenses defended successfully
This Spring quarter has been particularly active with defenses, with numerous graduate students successfully defending their MA thesis or qualifying paper:
MA Theses
- Delaney Gomez-Jackson: “Question and indefinites in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec” (Jess Law, Roumi Pancheva, and Maziar Toosarvandani, chair)
- Matthew Kogan: “Maintaining syntactic positions and thematic roles in memory” (Grant McGuire, Ivy Sichel, and Matt Wagers, chair)
- Elif Ulusoy: “Connectivity and case effects in agreement attraction: The case of Turkish” (Jorge Hankamer, Amanda Rysling, and Matt Wagers, chair)
Qualifying Papers
- Jonathan Paramore: “Codas are universally moraic” (Ryan Bennett, Jaye Padgett, and Rachel Walker, chair)
- Eli Sharf: “Identificational appositives” (Jess Law, Ivy Sichel, and Maziar Toosarvandani, chair)
- Jun Tamura: “Compounding words in the syntax can produce phrasal phonology: Evidence from Aoyagi morphemes (Ryan Bennett, chair, Mia Gong, and Rachel Walker)
- Maya Wax Cavallaro: “The syllable in domain generalization: Evidence from artificial language learning” (Ryan Bennett, Grant McGuire, Jaye Padgett, chair)
In addition, several students advanced to candidacy, successfully completing their qualifying exam:
- Lalitha Balachandran: “Linguistic memory domains in off-line sentence memory and on-line language comprehension” (Amanda Rysling, Maziar Toosarvandani, Matt Wagers, chair, and Ming Xiang (University of Chicago))
- Myke Brinkerhoff: “Acoustic discriminability of phonation in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec” (Ryan Bennet, Marc Garallek (UC San Diego), Grant McGuire, Jaye Padgett, chair)
- Dan Brodkin: “Locality and extraction in Mandar” (Ryan Bennett, Sandy Chung, chair, McCloskey, Ileana Paul (University of Western Ontario))
- Yaqing Cao: “Is there head movement in negation and modals?” (Bryan Donaldson (Languages and Applied Linguistics), Jess Law, Ivy Sichel, chair, Maziar Toosarvandani)
- Max Kaplan: “Phonotactic repair of onset clusters: Confusability and expectations” (Mark Amengual (Languages and Applied Linguistics), Ryan Bennett, chair, Grant McGuire, Amanda Rysling)
Congratulations to all the students who completed a milestone!