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Fellowships and Awards (2010-2011)

  • Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship
    Maryana Bendus
  • David M. Knox Fellowship
    Ashley Kentner
  • Lynn Fellowship
    Yi-Hui Chen
    Ruochen Li
    Wenfang Li

Degrees Granted

  • Hana Al Ameri: M.A., December 2009, "The Phonological Description of Emirati Arabic" (Professor Brentari)
  • Baseel AlBzoor: Ph.D., May 2011, "Semantic & Pragmatic Failure in Translating Literary Texts: Translators' Inconsistency and/or Textual Resistance" (Professor Raskin)
  • Naser Naif AlBzour: Ph.D., May 2011, "Semio-Pragmatic Analysis of Cartoons Discourse: A Step towards Semiotranslation" (Professor Raskin)
  • Tamara Alibasic: M.A., May 2003, "Pronominal System in Croatian Sign Language" (Professor Wilbur)
  • Omar Alrawi: M.A.
  • Engin Arik: Ph.D., May 2009, "Spatial Language: Insights from Sign & Spoken Languages" (Professor Wilbur)
  • Donalee Attardo: Ph.D., 1996 (Professor Raskin)
  • Debarchana Basu: M.A., May 2005, "Verb Compounds in Bangla: An Event Based Analysis" (Professor Wilbur); Ph.D., December 2010, (Professor Wilbur)
  • Maryana Bendus: M.A., August 2009, "Pitfalls in Lexical Acquisition of the Ukranian Language" (Professor Raskin)
  • Elizabeth Benecki: M.A., August 2008, "A Descriptive Linguistic Analysis of Three Suffixes Used in Computer-Mediated Communication (Professor Niepokuj)
  • Stacy L. Carr: M.A., December 2001, "Stage-Level vs. Individual-Level Predicates: An Analysis of Zero Copula in African American English, and Absence of Copula in Normally Developing Standard American English, and Standard American English in 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)
  • Linda Crossley: M.A., 2002 (Professor Brentari)  
  • Petra Eccarius: M.A., May 2002, "Finding Common Ground: A Comparison of Handshape Across Multiple Sign Languages" (Professor Brentari); Ph.D., May 2008, "Variety is the Spice of Language: Handshape Contrast within and Across Sign Language" (Professor Brentari)
  • Carolina Gonzalez: Ph.D., August 2011, "Perception of Prosody in American Sign Language" (Professor Brentari)
  • Donovan Grose: M.A., December 2003, "Perfect Tense in ASL: Nonmanual Markers of Tense" (Professor Wilbur); Ph.D., May 2008, "The Geometry of Events: Evidence of English and ASL" (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)  
  • Seiko Horibe: Ph.D., December 2002
  • Carly K. Houston: M.A., May 2009, "Participation Roles in Free Indirect Discourse" (Professor Raskin)
  • David Johnson: 1999  
  • Natalya Kaganovich: M.A., May 2003, "Measuring English Speakers' Consistency in Assigning Stress to Nonsense Words: Testing Linguistic Theory" (Professor Niepokuj); Ph.D., August 2007, "Interaction Between Talker's Voice, Linguistic Information, and Attention Deficit Speech Perception" (Professor A. Francis)
  • Aleksandra Kasztalska: M.A., May 2011, "Language Biases in the U.S. Media's Portrayal of Immigrants" (Professor Brown)
  • 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 A. Francis)
  • Olga Krachina: M.A., May 2006, "Ontology-Based Inference Methods" (Professor Raskin)
  • Melanie E. Lotz: M.A., May 2010, "Emotional Expression: A Cross-Linguistics Study" (Professor Roberts)
  • Evguenia Malaia: Ph.D., August 2005, "Digital Identity Management Domain for Ontological Semantics: Doman Acquisition Methodology and Practice" (Professor Raskin)
  • Aya Matsuda: Ph.D., 2000
  • Dina Mohammed: Ph.D., May 2005, "Extending Ontological Semantics for the Domain of Tourism: The Case of Egypt as a Destination" (Professor Raskin)
  • Marie A. Nadolske: Ph.D., December 2009, "Mastering the Pressures of Variation: A Cognitive Linguistic Examination of Advanced Hearing ASL L2 Signers" (Professor Brentari)
  • Kazuaki Nakazawa: Ph.D., August 2006, "Efficacy and Effects of Various Types of Teacher Feedback on Student Writing in Japanese" (Professor Wei)
  • David Neyhart: M.A., 2002
  • 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 Benedicto); Ph.D., August 2011, "The Acquisition of Wh-questions & Auxiliary Movement by Korean-English Bilingual Children" (Professor Benedicto)
  • Maxim Petrenko: Ph.D., May 2008, "Narrative Joke: Conceptual Structure and Linguistic Manifestation" (Professor Raskin)
  • 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)
  • Liubov Shafirovich: M.A., May 2010, "Syllabic Liquids in Slavic Languages with Focus on Russian and Bulgarian" (Professor Channon)
  • Robin Shay: M.A., December 2001, "Grammaticalization and Lexicalization: Analysis of Fingerspelling" (Professor Brentari)
  • Sara Jayne Shelton: Ph.D., 1997 (Professor Raskin)
  • Charles Smith: M.A., May 2007 (Professor Wilbur)
  • Amanda Strickland: M.A., August 2010 (Professor Roberts)
  • Elizabeth A. Strong: Ph.D., May 2010, "Topics & Talking Topically: An Assessment of Syntactic & Discourse Approaches to Topic Through Evidence from Multiple Simultaneous Conversations" (Professor Roberts)  
  • 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: M.A., May 2004, "New Philology: A Call for (Inter)Disciplinary Action" (Professor Raskin); Ph.D., August 2006, "The Ontology of Emotion" (Professor Raskin)
  • Whitney Vandiver: M.A., August 2009, "An Inference-based Model of Restricted Context Formation in Spoken Language Comprehension" (Professor Raskin); Ph.D., May 2011, "A Semantic Analysis of Quantification in English" (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)
  • Katharine L. Watson: M.A., May 2010, "WH- Questions in American Sign Language: contributions of non-manual marking to structure and meaning" (Professor Wilbur)
  • 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)
  • Youngmi Yun: M.A. 1999
  • Jie Zhang: M.A., December 2009, (Professor Raskin)
  • Wei Zhang: Ph.D., December 2010, "Non-Native Speakers Speak in Phonemes: A Phono-Acoustic Analysis of Fricatives and Affricates by Native and Chinese Speakers of English" (Professor A. Francis)
  • Yanhong Zhang: Ph.D., May 2008, "Production and Perception of English Lexical Stress by Native Mandarin Speakers" (Professor A. Francis)
  • Xiaoju Zheng: M.A., August 2006, "Voice Quality Change as a Function of Focus in Mandarin" (Professor Brentari)
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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)
  • Purdue Doctoral Fellowships
    Katrina Triezenberg (2004-06)
    Natasha Sutton (2006-08)
    Wei Zhang (2005-07)
  • Special Initiative Fellowships
    Natalya Kaganovich (2003-04)
    Katrina Triezenberg (2003-04)
    Yanhong Zhang (2001-02, 2002-03)
  • Teaching Assistant Honors
    Hanada Almasri (April 2004)
    Natalya Kaganovich (April 2004)
    Julija Televnaja (April 2004)
    Ricard Vinas de Puig (April 2009)
  • Teaching Assistant Certificates
    Evie Malaia (2004)
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