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PhD Students

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Abdullah Alghamdi

aaa553@pitt.edu

Second Language Acquisition, focusing on grammar learning and... more

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PraiseGod Aminu

praisegod.aminu@pitt.edu

(Critical) Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Language Variation... more

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Oluwasegun Amoniyan

oma55@pitt.edu

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Olivia Fan

olf36@pitt.edu

Sociophonetics, language, gender and sexuality, computational... more

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Zihan Gao

zihan.gao@pitt.edu

Phonetics, phonology, L2 speech perception and production

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Valeria Li

val81@pitt.edu

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Cova Marques Fernandez

com158@pitt.edu

Second Language Acquisition, Translation and Language, Gender and... more

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Hilary Newland

HIN34@pitt.edu

Second Language Acquisition, the effect of dual immersion programs on... more

Jack Rechsteiner

Sara Rosenau

Language and the Internet, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology... more

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Sarah Schaech

ses501@pitt.edu

Second Language Acquisition, Phonetics and Phonology

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Rosario Tornel Mengual

ROT90@pitt.edu

Morphosyntax, Second Language Acquisition, Cognitive linguistics,... more

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Jeyra Vannesa Vargas Sarmiento

jvv13@pitt.edu

Spanish dialectology and intonation, corpus linguistics, and... more

MA/TESOL Students

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Hajar Abdullitife Ababtain

Marissa Basile

Douglas Dean

Nikki Ernst

Ryan Golder

Austen Lawson

Zora Lock

Amber Mallery Lynch

AML425@pitt.edu

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Maiza Pereira Lobo

Brin Sharrar

Zachariah Shultz

Cole Stofflet

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Recent PhD Dissertations

Our PhD students address a variety of subjects in their dissertations.

Grad Student Presents at London Conference

Third-year PhD student Matthew John Hadodo presented his paper "Lateral Velarization in Istanbul Greek: Acoustic Evidence of Phonological Diffusion" at the ICGL 13 (International Conference of Greek Linguistics) held by the University of Westminster in London in September 2017. He notes that "Despite a considerable reduction in number, the iconic red telephone boxes still persist on several London street corners, not unlike the few but strong remaining native Greeks of Istanbul that I interviewed."