Recent milestone defenses

Over the summer and early fall, two grad students completed milestone defenses:

M.A. Theses

• Taijing Xiao: “On Mandarin Argument Reversal”. (Jess H.K. Law [chair], Pranav Anand and Maziar Toosarvandani)

Qualifying Paper

• Maya Wax Cavallaro: “The syllable in domain generalization: Evidence from artificial language learning” (Jaye Padgett [chair], Rachel Walker, and Grant McGuire)

Qualifying Exam

• Maya Wax Cavallaro: “The syllable and stress in domain generalization: Evidence from artificial language learning” (Jaye Padgett [chair], Ryan Bennett, Grant McGuire, and Eric Baković, UC San Diego)

Congrats to you both on completing these milestones!