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Dissertations and Theses 

Please see below for the Ph.D. Dissertations and Undergraduate Theses I have advised.

Ph.D. Dissertations in Linguistics chaired/co-chaired

2025.

Elanchezhian, Vaishnavi

Say it like you (don’t) mean it: The interaction of nominal modifiers and intonation gives rise to non-literal meaning (highest honors, Department of Linguistics Award for Research Excellence)

2024

Murphy, Hanna

Linguistic support for the acquisition of emotion adjectives (highest honors, Department of Linguistics Award for Research Excellence, Henry Rutgers Scholar Award)

2023

English, Alison

Investigating the pragmatic factors licensing ‘but’ (highest honors, Department of Linguistics Award for Research Excellence, Henry Rutgers Scholar Award) (co-advised with Pete Alrenga)

2022

Rosen, Amy

Communication across modalities: An investigation of co-speech gesture in a lexical suppression task (highest honors, Department of Linguistics Award for Research Excellence, Henry Rutgers Scholar Award)

2022

Trivedi, Nishtha

Prosodic marking of information structure and contrastive focus in autistic adults (highest honors, Henry Rutgers Scholar Award)

2021

Li, Karen

A proposal for the meaning of the Mandarin sentence final particle ‘a’ (highest honors, Henry Rutgers Scholar Award)

2021

Lu, Joy

Calling Stella long distance: Free classification of regional United States dialects, international dialects, and Asian Nonnative accents by listeners from a diverse demographic (highest honors, Department of Linguistics Award for Research Excellence)

2021

Serio, Nate

Concepts, essences, and mental representation (high honors)

2020

Lang, Talia

You called her a what?! Experimental evidence for the expressive and descriptive dimensions of slurs (high honors)

2020

Slusarczyk, Kathryn

Can speakers recruit sound symbolic cues in novel Korean ideophones to distinguish manner of motion? (highest honors, Henry Rutgers Scholar Award)

2020

Torres, Ilana

“Who’s” right: Accent and accuracy in assessments of object labels and instances of faultless disagreement (high honors, Department of Linguistics Award for Research Excellence)

2019

Dau, Zachary

The linguistic status of emojis (high honors)

2018

Husnain, Zehra

Domain restriction with plural definite descriptions in child language (high honors)

2017

Goldin, Anna

I suppose that I presuppose: An experimental investigation of factors affecting presupposition projection (high honors)

2017

Simon-Pearson, Laura

Assessing truth and knowledge: How children differ from adults in assessment of truth values and speaker knowledge (highest honors, Henry Rutgers Scholar Award)

2013

Baker, Hannah

An experimental investigation of the epistemic effect of ‘algun’ in Spanish language learners (honors)

UndergradTheses
PhDDissertations

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