Student Theses & Dissertations

2018

Catherine Showalter
"Orthographic input familiarity and congruence effects on phono-lexical acquisition of Russian by native speakers of English”

Taylor Anne Barriuso
"The L2 acquisition of phonemes and allophones under various exposure conditions."

2017

Jin Bi
"Bilingualism and Cognitive Control: A Comparison of Sequential and Simultaneous Bilinguals"

Abdulaziz Alzoubi
"The Effect of Social Factors on Emphatic-Plain Contrast: A Sociophonetic Study of Arabic in Amman City of Jordan"

2016

Miranda McCarvel
"Harmonic Serialism with Lexical Selection: Evidence from Jèrriais Allomorphy"

Sarah Braden
“Scientific Inquiry as Social and Linguistic Practice: Language Socialization Pathways in a Ninth-Grade Physics Class”

2015

Katherine Matsumoto
"Recent language change in Shoshone: Structural consequences of language loss"

Kristin Hiller
"International Undergraduates and Discourses of Internationalization: Exploring Conceptualizations and Experiences of the Internationalization of Higher Education and Representations of International Undergraduates at a U.S. University"

Hossam Ahmed
"Verbal Complementizers in Arabic"

Zebulon Pischnotte
"A Sociolinguistic Study of Bitburger Platt German" 

2014

Neil Olsen
A Descriptive Grammar of Koho-Sre: A Mon-Khmer Language

2013

Heeok “Jade” Jeong
Exploring the spaces of culturally relevant pedagogy: The discursive (trans)formation of the pedagogical practices of two teachers of English language learners

Tamrika Khvtisiashvili
Principal Aspects of Xinaliq Phonology and Morphosyntax

Asmaa Shehata
"When Variability Matters in Second Language Word Learning: Talker Variability and Task Type Effects"

Kristen Lindahl
Exploring an 'Invisible Meduim:' Teacher Language Awareness among K-12 Preservice Educators if English Learners

2012

Anna Krulatz
Interlanguage pragmatics in Russian: the speech act of request in email, 

Jelena Markovic
The effects of the explicit instruction of formulaic sequences on second-language writers

Wilson Silva
A Descriptive Grammar of Desano

Raichle Farrelly
Emerging from the Echo Chamber: An Activity Theory Perspective on the Situated Practice of L2 Teachers of Adult Emergent Readers,

2011

Mara Haslam
"The Effect of Perceptual Training Including Required Lexical Access and Meaningful Linguistic Context on L2 Phonology"

Naomi Palosaari
Topics in Mocho' Phonology and Morphology

Zuzana Tomas
Textual borrowing across academic assignments: Examining undergraduate L2 writers' implementation of writing instruction

2010

Eleonore Lemmerich
An Explicit Awareness-Raising Approach to the Teaching of Sociopragmatic Variation in Early Foreign Language Learning

Christopher Rogers
A Comparative Grammer of Xinkan

Ellen Shipley Knell
A Longitudinal Study of Early English Immersion and Literacy in Xi'an, China

2009

Qing Xing
"An Investigation of the Relationship Between the Teaching Beliefs and Behaviors of Teachers of English as a Second Language or Foreign Language"

2008

Aleksandra M. Zaba
"Relative Frequency of Patterns and Learnability: The Case of Phonological Harmony"

1989

Susan McKay
Raising-to-Object in French: A Functional Perspective

2024

2023

2022

2017

Brian Collins
"The Roles of -Ywac in the Polish Aspectual System"

Jessica Larsen
"How 'Enjoying a Meal' Is Similiar to 'Beginning a Book': Investigating Compositionality and the Processing of Complement Coercion Verbs"

John Blackham
"There and Back Again: An Adverb's Tale"

Dursun Altinok
"Quantifier Scope and Prosody in Turkish"

2016

Shasha Xu
"Effects of ESL Instructors’ Ethnicity and Perceived Accent on University ESL Students’ Expectations of ESL Instructors"

Rachel Haynes Miller
"Students’ Discrimination of German Contrasts after One Year of Dual Immersion"

Andrew Hayes
"Integrated Versus Decontextualized Approaches to Vocabulary Instruction in a Second Language Writing Course"

Josh Jackson
"The Effects of Novel Orthographic Elements and Phonetic Instruction in Second Language Phonological Acquisition"

Jemina Keller
"An Investigation of K-5/6 Pre-Service Teachers’ Knowledge and Beliefs About the Utah Core State Standards and English Learners"

Andrew Bayles
"High-Vowel Lenition in the French of Quebec and Paris"

2015

Kelsey Brown
"The Influence of Explicit Instruction on Failure to Acquire a Phonological Rule Due to Orthographic Input: The Case of Native English Speakers Learning German"

Derron Borders
"The Role of Gender Socialization and Sibilants in the Perception of Gay- and Straight-Sounding Voices: A Study of Returned Latter-Day-Saint Missionaries in Utah"

George Michael Pescaru
"Coordination and Interaction in Markedness Supression"

Christina Yong
"Adverbial Ordering in English"

Andrew Zupon
"Icelandic Quirky Agreement Restrictions: Evidence for Phi-Defective T in Quirky Subject Constructions"

Maria Alexeeva
"Academic English Learners' Perceptions of the Value of Discourse-level, Form-focused Activities in College-level Grammar Instruction"

Mengqi Wang
"Evidence on Long Head Movement in Mandarin Predicate Cleft" 

2014

Vitor De Souza
Action Research: Perceptions of Content-Based Instruction in an English as a Foreign Language Setting

Lindsay Hansen
Second-Language Writer and Instructor Perceptions of the Effectiveness of a Curriculum-Integrated Research Skills Library Guide

Tulay Orucu,
"Teaching English Grammar in a Hybrid Course: Student Performance and Teacher and Student Perceptions"

Amanda Rabideau
Talker background and individual differences in the speech intelligibility benefit

Daniel Dixon
"Leveling Up Language Proficiency Through Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games: Opportunities for English Learners to Receive Input, Modify Output, Negotiate Meaning, and Employ Language-Learning Strategies"

Kevin Kau
Teaching Beliefs and Practices of Language Teaching Assistants

2013

Scott Duede
Expanding and Explaining Classifier Typologies

2012

Catherine E. Showalter
The Influence of Novel Orthographic Information on Second Language Word Learning: The Case of Native English Speakers Learning Arabic

Deborah Wager
Fingerspelling in American Sign Language:A Case Study of Discourse Styles and Reduction

Jennifer Mitchell
Historical Duration in Modern Day Shosone Reflexes *aCi"

Gene Deal
Shoshoni Geminates: A Description and Analysis

2011

Todd McKay
An Investigation into a Communicative Approach to English Language Teaching in Governmental and Nongovernmental Primary Schools in Bangladesh

Jenia Ivanova
Phonological Aspects of Teacher Talk,

Karen Marsh
The Impact of Parent English as a Second Language Classes on Children's School Performance and Parent-School Interactions

Elizabeth Neilson
Oral Stop Contracts in Omaha: An Acoustic Analysis

2010

Robert D. Sykes
A Sociophonetic Study of (ai) in Utah English

Dominique Samantha Pantophlet
A Critical Period Hypothesis from an English as a Foreign Language Perspective

2009

Sadie Moon Dickman
Differences in Intelligibility of Non-Native Directed Speech and Hearing Impaired Directed Speech for Non-Native Listeners,

Sara Christine Bridge
Write Your Story: A Course to Promote L2 Writing Fluency Through Theme-Based Memoirs

Katherine Matsumoto-Gray
Politeness in Increasing Degrees of Imposition: A Sociolinguistic Study of Politeness in Political Conversations

David Joseph Iannucci
Aspects of Chitimacha Phonology

Shaun Paul Matthews
Antisymmetry, Relative Clauses and Adjectives

2008

Albert O. Jarvi
Effect of Lexical Access and Meaningful Linguistic Context on Second Language Speech Perception

Joshua Bowles
Agreement in Tuyuca,

Marcus Feickert
Without a Trace: Interpreting Full Copies of Qualifier Phrases in Semantics

2007

Hossam Eldin Ibrahim Ahmed
Parallel Derivation and Multiple Loci

Marlin Taylor
Complements, Small Clauses, and Antisymmetry

Zebulon Aaron Pischnotte
Optimality Theory Applied to Iñupiaq Eskimo Consonant Assimilation

Jennifer Leparmentier
Novel Feature Processing by Children and Adults

2006 - 2003

Waleed A. Alrowsa
Agreement in Najdi Arabic

Anna Lee
Variable Consonant Sequence Reduction in English: An Optimality Theory Approach

David Patrick Hall
Topichood, Scope, and Events

Zuzana Sarikova
Shared Cognitive Learning Styles between Instructors and Students as Predictors of Attitudes toward Learning

Aleksandra Zaba
Cross-Modular (Re)Balancing Effects in Language

2019

Angel Elizabeth Kaiser

Tyler Watson Laws

Differences in Voice-Onset Time (VOT) in Spanish Between First Language (L1), Second Langauge (L2), and Heritage Speakers 

Austin Dean Buttars

Jacqueline Danae Jolley

2017

Eve Olson
Voice onset time in Arabic and English stop consonants

Sara Blalock NG

Musical Text-Setting as Evidence for Syllabification of Highly Moraic Structures in English

Eizabeth Anne Nakashima

Linguistic Reclamation in the LGBTQ+ Community

2016

Jessica Loveland
Learning styles of teachers and students in a second language classrooms

2015

Alexander Nash
The Proto-Indo-European urheimat: The Armenian hypothesis

2013

Savannah Manwill
Sociolinguistics of Basque in the U.S.

Andrew Lee Zupon
Restrictions on Denominal Verb Formation

2009 - 2001

Stephen John Sovinsky
Speech Act Theory and Internet Culture: Computer-Mediated Communication in the Era of Web 2.0

Zachary Bret Rasmussen
The Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit: Arabic-Accented English

Robert Benjamin Young
The Syntax of Double Objects as an Instance of V Segmentation