Advising is difficult and stressful, but fun! Here are the people I have
advised/am advising:
PhD
Chair/co-chair (at Michigan State University)
PhD Committee Member
- Michael
Dow. (2014). Contrast
and Markedness among Nasal(ized) Vowels: A phonetic-phonological study
of French and Vimeu Picard. Indiana University. [present:
Assistant Professor, University of Montreal]
- Timothy O’Neill. (2015). The Phonology of
Betsimisaraka Malagasy. University of Delaware.
- Mingzhe Zheng. You have to learn to adapt: A
sociolinguistic study of Chinese Americans in the “Asian City” of
Southeast Michigan. committee member. PhD, 2017, Michigan State
University. [present: Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley]
- Monica
Nesbitt. (2019). The
impact of internal social change on local phonology. Michigan
State University. [present: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College]
- Cara (Danny) Feldscher.
(2019). Natural language
addition via degrees, events, and focus. Michigan State
University. [present: language researcher at Amazon]
- Xiaomei
Wang. (2020). Local
Identity and Language Attitude in Standardization: Evidence from Tianjin
Chinese Tone Sandhi. Michigan State University. [present:
faculty at Tianjin University]
- Mohammed
Ruthan. (2020). Aspects of Jazani
Arabic. Michigan State University. [present: Assistant
Professor, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University]
- Chenchen
Xu. (2020). The
Phonology and Phonetics of Rugao Syllable Contraction: Vowel Selection
and Deletion. Michigan State University.
- Ho-Hsin
Huang. (2020). To
Epenthesize or not? Segment Insertion in Mandarin Loanwords.
Michigan State University. [present: Instructor of Chinese, Michigan
State University]
- Yan
Cong, (2021). Competition in Natural Language Meaning: The Case of
Adjective Constructions in Chinese and Beyond. Michigan State
University.
- Shannon Cousins, MSU (PhD expected, Fall 2023)
- Ye Ma, MSU (PhD expected, Fall 2023)
- Yongqing Ye, MSU (PhD expected, Fall 2024)
- Yaxuan Wang, MSU (PhD expected, Fall 2025)
- Adam Barnhardt, MSU (PhD expected, Fall 2026)
Other PhD committees
- Mitch Klein [former PhD student at MSU; PhD Co-advisor with Brian
Buccola] - Served 2019-2023.
- Chad Hall, Sociolinguistics [PhD expected, 2022] - Served
2017-2020.
- Xiayimaierdan Abudushalamu, Sociolinguistics [PhD expected, 2022] -
Served 2017-2020.
- Rebecca Senn, Sociolinguistics [switched to MA] - Served
2016-2020.
- Alex Mason,
Sociolinguistics [Did not finish] - Served 2016-2020.
- Komeil Kolahi Ahari, Syntax [PhD expected, 2023] - Served
2018-2020.
- Matt
Savage, Sociolinguistics [PhD expected, 2023] - Served
2014-2020.
- Monica Obiri-Yeboah, Sociolinguistics [switched to MA] - Served
2019-2021.
Chair/co-chair
MA Committee (at Michigan State University)
MA Committee
Member (at Michigan State University)
- Patricia Lawrence, MSU (MA, Fall 2015)
- Alex Mason, MSU
(MA, Spring 2016) [present: PhD student, MSU]
- Alicia Parrish, MSU (MA,
Spring 2017) [present: PhD student, New York University]
- Adam Smolinski, MSU (MA, Spring 2019)
- Jack Rechsteiner, (MA expected, Fall 2022)
Undergraduate
Student Theses (at Michigan State University)
- Cherilyn Wang. (2002). CV-timing alters regarding different
vowel height – an articulatory study using corpus data.
- Sarah Knappenberger. (2022). Lexical Access and Production in
Michigan English.
- Katelyn Weatherford. (2022). Acoustic C-center effects in
Russian.
- Russell Marvin. (2021). The effect of speech rate on the voicing
effect in English.
- Jillian Burger. (2021). Instructional Effects on Phonotactic
Acceptability Judgement Testing.
- Michaela Smith. (2020). Perception of [æ] raising in pre-oral
and pre-nasal settings in Michigan English speakers.
- Sean Connelly. (2020). Measuring Dentalization of Alveolar Stops
in Native English Speakers of Lebanese-Arab Descent from Dearborn,
Michigan.
- Megan Placko. (2020). Phonological Underspecification in Voicing
Perception using a simple Oddball paradigm. [After graduating:
Masters in Speech Pathology, University of Illinois at Urbana
Champagne.]
- Kinsey Adair. (2020). Mathematizing Turkish Phonology.
- Bobby Felster. (2019). Ambisyllabic consonants in Michigan
English.
- Claire Moen. (2018). The Yooper Accent: A Phonetic Study of the
Upper Peninsula Dialect.
- Scott Nelson. (2017).
Perceptual Retuning Targets Features. [After graduating: MA,
MSU, and then PhD student, SUNY Stony Brook]
- Bethany Dickerson.
(2017). Canadian Raising in Michigan English. [After
graduating: MA, University of Massachusetts Amherst]
- Taylor Bronsink. (2017). Moral language as Reflected in
Presidential State of the Union Speeches over the Course of American
History.
- Emily Salzeid. (2017). Gestural Relations and
Phonology.
- Stirling Witthoeft. (2016). Changes in Speech Rate due to
Varying Simulated Acoustic Environments.
- Elliot Selkirk. (2016). Acoustic Correlates of Gesture Timing in
English Syllables. [After grduating: MA/PhD student, University of
Edinburgh]
- Lindsay Burger. (2016). The Relationship between Self-soothing
Behaviors and Complex Language in Children.
- Katelyn Grizzle. (2016). Compliance and Beliefs of Hearing
Protection in a Noisy Environment.
- Foster, Elaine. (2015). American attitudes toward American
dialects.
- Hoffman, Jared. (2015). Syllable Compression:
Revisited.
- Swisher, Kimberly. (2013). The perceptibility and
comprehensibility of the Speech of Individuals with Downs Syndrome
(DS).
- Adams, Latoya. (2013). Production and perception of homophonous
words in English.
- Chabala, Dan. (2012). The effect of pitch on the production of
vowel length.
- Koo, Boram. (2012). Review of palatalization: what it means to
have secondary palatalization.
- Heffner, Chris. (2011). Languages with Opacity are Opaque.
[present: Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo]
- Selbig, Shaina. (2011). Breathy voice: Using Praat scripting to
determine the intensity difference of H1-H2.
- Briones, Juan. (2011). Perception of Phonemic and Allophonic
Contrasts in Spanish.
- Soo-Rim, Hong. (2010). Effects of Korean Phonology on English
when Koreans learn English.