Lynn Fellowship Gregory Bowen Kadir Gozgok Aleksandra Kasztalska Amanda Shultz
Degrees Granted
Tamara Alibasic: M.A., May 2003, "Pronominal System in Croatian Sign Language" (Professor Wilbur)
Hanada Al-masri: Ph.D., May 2004, "Semantic and Cultural Losses in the Translation of Literary Texts" (Professor Raskin)
Engin Arik: Ph.D., May 2009, "Spatial Language: Insights from Sign & Spoken Languages" (Professor Wilbur)
Debarchana Basu: M.A., May 2005, "Verb Compounds in Bangla: An Event Based Analysis" (Professor Wilbur)
Maryana Bendus: M.A., August 2009, "Pitfalls in Lexical Acquisition of the Ukranian Language" (Professor Raskin)
Stacy L. Carr: M.A., December 2001, "Stage-Level vs. Individual-Level Predicates: An Analysis for Zero Copula in African American English, and Absence of Copula in Normally Developing Standard American English, and Standard American English with SLI" (Professor Benedicto)
Yin Ling Cheung: Ph.D., May 2009, "Publishing in Refereed Journals: Perceptions, Challenges, & Strategies" (Professor Silva)
Jennifer Cramer: M.A., May 2006, "The Language of Chat: An Analysis of English Usage in French Chat Rooms" (Professor Berns)
Alejandrina Cristia: M.A., December 2006, "Speech Sound Categories in Language Acquisition and Learning" (Professor Seidl); Ph.D., May 2009, "Individual Variation in Infant Speech Processing: Implications for Language Acquisition Theories" (Professor Seidl)
Petra Eccarius: M.A., May 2002, "Finding Common Ground: A Comparison of Handshape Across Multiple Sign Languages" (Professor Brentari)
Donovan Grose: M.A., December 2003, "Perfect Tense in ASL: Nonmanual Markers of Tense" (Professor Wilbur)
Kathryn L. Hansen: Ph.D., August 2006, "Recombinant Features for the Movements of American Sign Language" (Professor Anderson)
Christian Hempelmann: Ph.D., May 2003, "Paranomasic Puns: Target Recoverability towards Automatic Generation" (Professor Raskin)
Maki Hirotani: Ph.D., May 2005, "The Effects of Synchronous and Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) on the Development of Oral Proficiency among Novice Learners of Japanese" (Professor Fukada)
Carly K. Houston: M.A., May 2009, "Participation Roles in Free Indirect Discourse" (Professor Raskin)
Natalya Kaganovich: Ph.D., August 2007, "Interaction Between Talker's Voice, Linguistic Information, and Attention During Speech Perception" (Professor A. Francis)
Natalya Kaganovich: M.A., May 2003, "Measuring English Speakers' Consistency in Assigning Stress to Nonsense Words: Testing Linguistic Theory" (Professor Niepokuj)
Maria Kondaurova: M.A., May 2004, "Cross-Language Perception of Phonetic Categories" (Professor A. Francis); Ph.D., December 2008, "Training to Ignore vs. Training to Attend: The Distribution of Selective Attention in the Acquisition of Foreign Phonetic Contrast" (Professor Alexander Francis)
Olga Krachina: M.A., May 2006, "Ontology-Based Inference Methods" (Professor Raskin)
Evguenia Malaia: Ph.D., August 2005, "Digital Identity Management Domain for Ontological Semantics: Domain Acquisition Methodology and Practice" (Professor Raskin)
Dina Mohammed: Ph.D., May 2005, "Extending Ontological Semantics for the Domain of Tourism: The Case of Egypt as a Destination" (Professor Raskin)
Kazuaki Nakazawa: Ph.D., August 2006, "Efficacy and Effects of Various Types of Teacher Feedback on Student Writing in Japanese" (Professor Wei)
Jason Overfelt: M.A., May 2009, "The Syntax of Relative Clause Constructions in Tigrinya" (Professor Benedicto)
Sung Kyung Park: M.A., December 2008, "The Acquisition of the English Article System by Advanced Korean Learners of English" (Professor Elena Benedicto)
Danielle Reindl: M.A., August 2009, "Prosodic Features of a Spanish Ludling" (Professor Niepokuj)
Ninoslava Sarac: M.A., May 2003, "Questions in Croatian Sign Language" (Professor Wilbur)
Katharina Schalber: M.A., May 2004, "Phonological Visibility of Event Structure in Austrian Sign Language - A Comparison of ASL and OGS" (Professor Wilbur)
Robin Shay: M.A., December 2001, "Grammaticalization and Lexicalization: Analysis of Fingerspelling" (Professor Brentari)
Charles Smith: M.A., May 2007 (Professor Wilbur)
Natasha Sutton: M.A., August 2009, "Polysemy of the Term 'shit' in Hip Hop Lyrics" (Professor Roberts)
Cuneyt Taskiran: M.A., May 2006, "Authorship Attribution" (Professor Raskin)
Julija Televnaja: Ph.D., May 2004, "Lexical Acquisition and Semantic Representation of English Phrasal Verbs in Ontological Semantics" (Professor Raskin)
Aubrey Thamann: M.A., August 2002, "Self-Naming Rituals in U.S. American Culture" (Professor Anderson)
Katrina Triezenberg: Ph.D., August 2006, "The Ontology of Emotion" (Professor Raskin)
Katrina Triezenberg: M.A., May 2004, "New Philology: A Call for (Inter)Disciplinary Action" (Professor Raskin)
Whitney Vandiver: M.A., August 2009, "An Inference-based Model of Restricted Context Formation in Spoken Language Comprehension" (Professor Raskin)
Ricard Vinas I de Puig: Ph.D., August 2009, "The Argument of Experience: Experience Predicates & Argument Structure in Catalan & Mayangna" (Professor Benedicto)
Benjamin Wachs: M.A., December 2003, "Invective as Opposed to Insult: Dual-Mode Communication Manifest in Structure and Use" (Professor Raskin)
George Wolford: M.A., August 2009, "Structural Variation of Classifier Constructions in Six Sign Languages" (Professor Wilbur)
Sandra K. Wood: M.A., December 1999, "Semantic and Syntactic Aspects of Negation in ASL" (Professor Wilbur)
Xiaoju Zheng: M.A., August 2006, "Voice Quality Change as a Function of Focus in Mandarin" (Professor Brentari)
Previous Year Fellowships and Awards:
A. H. Ismail Travel Awards Yin Ling Cheung (2006-07) Katrina Triezenberg (2006-07)
Frederick N. Andrews Fellowships Jennifer Doyle (2004-06) Alejandrina Cristia (2005-07)
Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship Engin Arik (2008-09) Maria Kondaurova (2007-08) Natalya Kaganovich (2006-07)
David M. Knox Fellowship Elizabeth Benecki (2006-07) Amanda Strickland (2008-09)
Lynn Fellowships Naser Al-Bzour (2007-08) Engin Arik (2005-06) Vadim Barranikov (2002-03) Debarchana Basu (2002-03) Maryana Bendus (2007-08) Yin Ling Cheung (2004-05) Bo Hyun Kim (2005-06) Maria Kondaurova (2001-02) Olga Krachina (2003-04) Sung Kyung Park (2006-07) Charles Smith (2004-05) Elizabeth Strong (2004-05) Whitney Vandiver (2008-09) Katherine Watson (2008-09) Ayman Rashad Yasin (2008-09) Xiaoju Zheng (2003-04)
PRF Research Fellowships Alejandrina Cristia (2008-09) Kazumi Nakazawa (2005-06)
