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Fellowships and Awards (2007-08)

  • Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship
    Maria Kondaurova
  • Lynn Fellowship
    Nasar Al-Bzour
    Maryana Bendus
  • Purdue Doctoral Fellowship
    Natasha Sutton

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)
  • Debarchana Basu: M.A., May 2005, "Verb Compounds in Bangla: An Event Based Analysis" (Professor Wilbur)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Benjamin Wachs: M.A., December 2003, "Invective as Opposed to Insult: Dual-Mode Communication Manifest in Structure and Use" (Professor Raskin)
  • 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
    Natalya Kaganovich (2006-07)
  • David M. Knox Fellowship
    Elizabeth Benecki (2006-07)
  • Lynn Fellowships
    Engin Arik (2005-06)
    Vadim Barranikov (2002-03)
    Debarchana Basu (2002-03)
    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)
    Xiaoju Zheng (2003-04)
  • PRF Research Fellowships
    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)
  • Teaching Assistant Certificates
    Evie Malaia (2004)