Successful end-of-the-year defenses

The final week of the quarter brought a flurry of successful defenses across all levels—dissertations, QP2s, and QP1s. Congratulations to all who reached these important milestones!

Dissertations

• Myke Brinkerhoff, “Voice Quality and Laryngeal Complexity in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec”
• Yaqing Cao, “Scope Reconstruction in Head Movement”

QP2s

• Ian Carpick, “Deriving Vowel Reduction from a Law Governing Human Motion”
• Richard Wang, “Investigating the role of duration in the categorization of Mandarin tone”

QP1s

• Hanyoung Byun, “Interaction between consonant voicing and vowel devoicing in Seoul Korean”
• Aidan Katson,“Expanding the nominal in English ACC- and POSS-ing nominalizations”
• Emily Knick, “Future reference and covert modality in Khalkha Mongolian”
• Ruoqing Yao, “Who and when gets to race? The distinguishedness effect in pronominal ambiguity resolution”