Recent PhD Dissertations

Aljuran, Aidah (2025) From Concealment to Revelation: The Emergence of Ismaʿili Identity in a Changing Saudi Arabia
Advisor: Scott Kiesling

Leal-Arenas (2025) The Acquisition of Theticity and Focus in L2 Spanish 
Advisor: Marta Ortega-Llebaria

Brown, Alexus (2024) What's the Deal Forreal: Rap Music's Sociolinguistic Story
Advisor: Shelome Gooden

Patrick, Joseph (2024) Constructing Montenegrin Identities Online through Language Ideology and Semiotic Differentiation
Advisor: Scott Kiesling

Lee, Miroo (2024) Perceptual flexibility during second language learning: the role of language experience in Korean-English bilinguals' pitch perception
Advisor: Melinda Fricke

Berrios, Juan (2023) The L2 Acquisition of Progressive and Habitual Aspect Through the Lens of Analyticity
Advisor: Matt Kanwit

Swain, Angela Krak (2023) Cross-Dialectal Phonetic Variation and Lexical Encoding: Evidence from /s/ Perception in Seville Capital
Advisor: Melinda Fricke

Branson, Dominique (2023) Sounding Guilty: Criminality and Black Racialized Speech
Advisor: Shelome Gooden

Fang, Shaohua (2023) Quantifier Scope in L2 Learners: Interpretation, Processing, and Acquisition
Advisor: Alan Juffs

Nonnenmacher, Sean Robert (2023) Remapping the contours of language, gender/sexuality, and childhood 
Advisor: Scott Kiesling

DeLoge, Alana Nicole (2022) Quechua Ethnolinguistic Vitality: A Perspective on and from Health 
Advisor: Shelome Gooden

Naismith, Benjamin S (2022) Examiner judgments of collocational proficiency in L2 English learners’ writing 
Advisor: Alan Juffs

Neumann, Farrah (2021) When Phonological Systems Collide: The Role of the Lexicon in L2 Phonetic Learning
Advisor:  Melinda Fricke

Hadodo, Matthew John (2020) Cosmopolitan Constantinopolitans: Istanbul Greek Language and Identity
Advisor: Scott Kiesling

Teran, Virginia (2020) The acquisition of variable past-time expression in L2 Spanish: combining concept-oriented, form-oriented, and variationist research traditions within functionalism
Advisor: Matt Kanwit

Tse, Holman (2019) Beyond the Monolingual Core and out into the Wild: A Variationist Study of Early Bilingualism and Sound Change in Toronto Heritage Cantonese
Advisor: Scott Kiesling

Pisabarro Sarrio, Silvia (2019) Developing sociolinguistic competence through explicit instruction: the case of future-time expression in L2 Spanish
Advisor:  Matt Kanwit

Lai, Li-Fang (2018) Intonation in contact prosodic transfer and innovation among Yami-Mandarin Bilinguals
Advisor:  Shelome Gooden

Wu, Zhaohong (2017). Processing of English Derived Words in Advanced Second Language Learners: Effects of L1 Typology, Morphological Awareness, Suffix Complexity and L2 Proficiency
Advisor: Alan Juffs

Héctor Ramírez-Cruz (2017) Ethnolinguistic vitality in a Creole ecology: San Andres and Providencia
Advisor: Shelome Gooden

Li, Noriyasu (2017) Interpretation and Processing of the System of Japanese Reflexives
Advisor: Alan Juffs

Jeske, Andrew (2016) The Development of English Vowels By Native Spanish Speakers
Advisor: Alan Juffs

Washington, Adrienne Ronee (2016) (Re)structuring structures, speech and selves: Yoruba language learning and redevelopment in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Advisor: Shelome Gooden

Martin, Katherine I. (2015) L1 Impacts on L2 Component Reading Skills, Word Skills, and Overall Reading Achievement
Advisor: Alan Juffs

Wang, Jing (2015) The Effect of Implicit vs. Explicit Instruction on Learning Form-based vs. Meaning-based Language Features
Advisor: Yasuhiro Shirai

Wang, Ping (2015) Phonological Prominence and Its Interaction with Tone in Chinese Dialects
Advisor: Shelome Gooden

Soudi, Abdesalam (2014) Competing lines of action: A sociolinguistic approach to the human-computer interface in doctors' consultations
Advisor: Scott Kiesling

Geda, Kristopher (2014) Ambivalent Affiliations: Black and White Gay Men's Discourses on Identity and Belonging
Advisor: Scott Kiesling

Lifrieri, Verónica (2014) Teachers' Talk about Talk: An investigation into the social meaning of variation in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Advisor:  Scott Kiesling

Draucker, Fawn (2013) Participation as a tool for interactional work on Twitter: A sociolinguistic approach to social media 'engagement'
Advisor: Scott Kiesling

Schoux Casey, Christina (2013) Postvocalic /r/ in New Orleans: Language, place and commodification
Advisor: Scott Kiesling

Marcos Miguel, Nausica (2013) ANALYZING ISTRUCTION AND LEARNING OF DERIVATIONAL MORHOLOGY IN THE SPANISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
Advisor: Alan Juffs

Collister, Lauren Brittany (2013) Multimodality as a Sociolinguistic Resource
Advisor: Scott Kiesling

Olsen, Michael Kevin (2013) The Acquisition of Case in Spanish Pronominal Object Clitics in English-Speaking College-Level L2 Learners
Advisor: Alan Juffs

Vercellotti, Mary Lou (2012) Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency as Properties of Language Performance: The Development of Multiple Subsystems over Time and in Relation to Each Other
Advisor: Yasuhiro Shirai

Luk, Pei Sui (2012) TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN JAPANESE AND ENGLISH: A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC STUDY

Aranovich, Roberto (2012) Optional agreement and grammatical functions: a corpus study of dative clitic doubling in Spanish
Advisor: Alan Juffs

Brubaker, Brian (2012) The Normative Standard of Mandarin in Taiwan: An Analysis of Variation in Metapragmatic Discourse
Advisor:  Scott Kiesling

Chan, Ho Leung (2012) Tense-aspect processing in second language learners
Advisor: Yasuhiro Shirai

Bonilla, Carrie (2012) Testing Processability Theory in L2 Spanish: Can Readiness or Markedness Predict Development? 
Advisor: Yasuhiro Shirai