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Tang, Katrina Elizabeth

2008

 

The Phonology and Phonetics of Consonant-Tone  Interaction

 

 

Khan, Sameer

2008

Intonational Phonology and Focus Prosody of Bengali

Neilsen, Kuniko Yasu

2008

Word-level and Feature-level Effects in Phonetic Imitation

 

Okabe, Reiko

2008

Child Causatives:  Acquisition of Bi-clausal Structures in Japanese

 

Mwita, Leonard Chacha

2008

Verbal Tone in Kuria

 

Pertsova, Katya

2007

Learning Form-Meaning Mappings in Presence of Homonymy: a linguistically motivated model for learning inflection

 

Martin, Andrew

2007

The Evolving Lexicon

 

Shademan, Shabman

2007

Grammar and Analogy in Phonotactic Well-formedness Judgments

 

Heinz, Jeffrey

2007

Inductive Learning of Phonotactic Patterns

 

Kobele, Greg

2006

Generating Copies: An Investigation into Structural Identity in Language and Grammar

 

Gilkerson, Jill

2006

Acquiring English Particle Verbs:

Age and Transfer Effects in Second Language Acquisition

 

Ntelitheos, Dimitrios

2006

The Morphosyntax of Nominalizations: A Case Study

 

Esposito, Christina

2006

The Effects of Linguistic Experience on the Perception of Phonation

 

Lillehaugen, Brook

2006

Expressing Location in Tlacolula Valley Zapotec.

 

Foreman, John

2006

The Morphosyntax of Subjects in Macuiltianguis Zapotec

 

Arbisi-Kelm, Timothy

2006

An Intonational Analysis of Disfluency Patterns in Stuttering

 

Jackson, Eric

2005

 Resultatives, Derived Statives, and Lexical Semantic Structure

 

Fleischhacker, Heidi

2005

Similarity in Phonology:  Evidence from Reduplication and Loan Adaptation

 

Torrence, Harold

2005

On the Distribution of Complementizers in Wolof

 

Buell, Leston

2005

Issues in Zulu Verbal Morphosyntax

 

Lin, Ying

2005

Learning Features and Segments from Waveforms: A Statistical Model of Early Phonological Acquisition

 

Albro, Daniel

2005

Reduplication in Optimality Theory: Computation and Analysis

 

Scarborough, Rebecca

2004

Coarticulation and the Structure of the Lexicon

 

Liu, Haiyong

2004

Complex Predicates in Mandarin Chinese: Three Types of Bu-Yu Structures

 

Riggle, Jason

2004

Generation, Recognition, and Learning in Finite State Optimality Theory

 

Kim, Sahyang

2004

The role of prosodic phrasing in Korean word segmentation

 

Avelino Becerra, Heriberto

2004

Topics in Yalalag Zapotec, with Particular Reference to its Phonetic Structures

 

MacBride, Alex

2004

A Constraint-Based Approach to Morphology

[abstract]

McCrary, Kristie

2004

(Romance Linguistics) Reassessing the Role of the Syllable in Italian Phonology: An Experimental Study of Consonant Cluster Syllabification, Definite Article Allomorphy and Segment Duration.

[abstract]

Caponigro, Ivano

2003

Free Not to Ask: On the Semantics of Free Relatives and Wh-Words Cross-linguistically

 

Storto, Gianluca

2003

Possessives in Context:  Issues in the Semantics of Possessive Constructions

[abstract]

Matondo, Masangu

2003

Tone and Prosodic Morphology in Kisukuma

 

Baltazani, Mary

2002

Quantifier scope and the role of intonation in Greek

 

Albright, Adam

2002

The Identification of Bases in Morphological Paradigms

[abstract]

Epstein, Melissa

2002

Voice Quality and Prosody in English

[abstract]

Vegnaduzzo, Stefano

2001

(coming soon)

 

Harkema, Hendrik

2001

Parsing Minimalist Languages

 

Cho, Taehong

2001

Effects of Prosody on Articulation in English

[abstract]

Foreman, Christina

2001

(coming soon)

 

Garrett, Edward

2001

Evidentiality and Assertion in Tibetan

 

Zhang, Jie

2001

The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Contour Tone Distribution--Typological Survey and Formal Analysis

[abstract]

Gimba, Alhaji Maina

2000

Bole Verb Morphology

[abstract]

Ueyama, Motoko

2000

(Applied Linguistics) Prosodic Transfer: An Acoustic Study of L2 English vs. L2 Japanese

[abstract]

Zuraw, Kie

2000

Patterned Exceptions in Phonology

[abstract]

Fulop, Sean

1999

On the Logic and Learning of Language

 

Stack, Kelly

1999

Innovation by a Child Acquiring Signing Exact English II

 

Gordon, Matthew

1999

Syllable Weight: Phonetics, Phonology and Typology

[abstract]

Harada, Tetsuo

1999

(Applied Linguistics) The Acquisition of Segmental Timing by Children in a Japanese Immersion Program

[abstract]

Kirchner, Robert

1998

An Effort-Based Approach to Consonant Lenition

[abstract]

Grinstead, John

1998

(Applied Linguistics) Subjects, Sentential Negation and Imperatives in Child Spanish and Catalan

[abstract]

Blankenship, Barbara 

1997

The timecourse of breathiness and laryngealization in vowels

[abstract]

Biggs, Henry

1996

(Romance Linguistics) A Statistical Analysis of the Metrics of the Classic French Decasyllable and Classic Alexandrine

 

 


Dissertations by Mail Order

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Box 951543
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The following volumes are now available, at the cost of $10.00 per volume. Add $2 per volume for Air Mail outside of North America. Make check or money order payable to UCLA Linguistics Department.

  • #1 Phasing and Recoverability
    by Daniel Silverman (1995)
  • #2 Perceptual and Articulatory Factors in Place Assimilation: An Optimality Theoretic Approach
    by Jongho Jun (1995)
  • #3 Heavy Pied-piping in Nweh
    by Michael Nkemnji (1995)
  • #4 The Determination of Grammatical Relations in Syntax
    by Jack Martin (1991)
  • #5 Phonological Phrasing in Japanese
    by Hiroyuki Nagahara (1994)
  • #6 Scope Dependency in English and Chinese
    by Feng-Hsi Liu (1990)
  • #7 Syntactic Dependencies and the Spec-Head Agreement Hypothesis in Kilega
    by K.K.W. Kinyalolo (1991)
  • #8 The Typology of Rounding Harmony: An Optimality Theoretic Approach
    by Abigail Kaun (1995)
  • #9 The Internal Syntax of DP
    by Daniel Valois (1991)
  • #10 Verb Incorporation and Elementary Predicates
    by Murat Kural (1996)
  • #11 Extending the Binding Theory: A Muskogean Case Study
    by George Aaron Broadwell (1990)
  • #12 Verbal Nouns in Japanese
    by Kaoru Ohta (1994)
  • #13 The Grammatical structure of Verbal Predicates
    by Richard Campbell (1989)
  • #14 Evaluating Claims of Distant Relationships: The Case of Khoisan
    by Bonny Sands (1995)
  • #15 Roots in Language Acquisition: A Comparative Study of Japanese and European Languages
    by Tetsuya Sano (1995)
  • #16 The Phrase Structure of Quantifier Scope
    by Filippo Beghelli (1995)
  • #17 Direct Object Scrambling in Dutch and Italian Child Language
    by Jeannette Schaeffer (1997)
  • #18 Semantic Trees
    by Dorit Ben-Shalom
  • #19 Description Theory, Licensing Theory, and Principle-Based Grammars and Parsers
    by Thomas Cornell (1992)
  • #20 Consonant Clusters and Cue Preservation in Tsou
    by Richard Wright (1996)

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