Where are they now: 2010-2019
2015
Danielle Barth. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Volya Kapatsinski, “To HAVE and to BE: Function Word
Reduction in Child Speech, Child-Directed Speech and Inter-Adult Speech. Dr. Barth is a research fellow at Australian National
University.
2014
Ying Chen. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Melissa Redford, “Prosodic Realization of Focus in Sound
Language Speech: Effects of Language Experience”. Dr. Chen is a Professor of Linguistics at Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology.
Linda Konnerth. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Scott DeLancey, “A Grammar of Karbi”. Dr. Konnerth is a
post-doc at the University of Oregon in the Department of Linguistics. In July 2014 received a National Science Foundation
award for research on “Documenting the ‘old kuki’ Languages in Manipur.
Hema Sirsa. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Melissa Redford, “First Language on Sociolinguistic
Influences on the Sound Patterns of Indian English. Dr. Sirsa is a senior linguist at Sensory, Inc. in Portland, Oregon.
2013
Butler, Brian. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of his advisor, Eric Pederson, “A Semantic Map Approach to English
Articles (a, the, and o)”. Dr. Butler is an adjunct instructor at University of Oregon at the American English Institute.
Wook Kyung Choe. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Melissa Redford, “The Role of Supralexical Prosodic
Units in Speech Production: Evidence from the Distribution of Speech Error”. Dr. Choe is an assistant professor of English at
University in Busan Korea in the Center of Liberal Education Dong.
Tam Nguyen. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Scott DeLancey, “A Grammar of Bih”. Dr. Nguyen is a
lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University in Ho
Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Yolanda Valdez. PhD. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Spike Gildea “Predication in Rar Muri (Urique
Tarahumara)”. Dr. Valdez is a research associate in the Brain Development Lab at the University of Oregon Department of
Psychology.
2012
Michael Ahland. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of his advisor, Doris Payne, “A Grammar of Northern Mao”. Dr. Ahland
is an assistant professor of Linguistics at California State University, Long Beach.
Beavert, Virginia. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Scott DeLancey, “Wantwint wnmi tiinawit: A Reflection
of What I have learned”. Working at the University of Oregon Northwest Indian Languages Institute transforming her
dissertation into a book. Co-teaches the UO Ichishkiin language course and involved in piloting a distance education coloration
between University of Oregon and Heritage University located in Toppenish, Washington, her home on the Yakama National
Reservation. Dr. Beavert recently celebrated her 93st birthday.
Christopher Doty. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of his advisor, Scott DeLancey, “A Reassessment of the Genetic
Classification of Milik Coos”. Dr. Doty is a lecturer at Northeastern University in the Linguistics Department.
Jung-yao Lu. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of his advisor, Scott DeLancey, “An Investigation of Various Linguistic
Changes in Chinese and Naxi”. Dr. Lu works at National Minorities University.
2011
Gwendolyn Hyslop. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Scott DeLancey, “A Grammar of Kurtop”. Dr. Hyslop
is a research fellow at the School for Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University.
Grace Oh. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Susan Guion-Anderson, “The effect of age of acquisition and
second-language experience on prosody and segments: A cross-sectional study of Korean bilinguals’ English and Korean
production”. Dr. Oh works at Hyposung University.
Irina Shport. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Susan Guion-Anderson, “Cross-linguistic perception and
learning of Japanese lexical prosody by English listeners”. Dr. Shport is an assistant professor at Louisiana State University in
the English Department.
2010
Joana Jansen. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Scott DeLancey, “A Yakima Sahaptin/Ichishkin Grammar
with Texts”. Dr. Jansen is Associate Director of the Northwest Indian Language Institute at the University of Oregon.
Racquel Yamada. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Spike Gildea, “Speech Community-based
Documentation, Description and Revitalization: Kari’nja in Konomerume” Dr. Yamada received a National Science Foundation
award for research on “Aretyry Kari’nja (Carib): Training Speech Community Members in the Documentation, Description and
Materials Development”. Dr. Yamada is an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma in the Department of
Anthropology.
Rosa Vallejos Yopan. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Spike Gildea, “A Grammar of Kokama-Kokamilla”.
At the summer meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology in Hong Kong it was announced that her dissertation was
singled out for Honorable Mention for the 2011 Panini Award, given for outstanding typological studies and reference
grammars by young scholars. In Fall 2012 her dissertation was selected to win the 2011 Mary Haas Award for the Society for
the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Dr. Vallejos Yopan received a National Science Foundation award on the
historical connections between Kokama-Kokamilla and Omagua. Dr. Vallejos Yopan is an assistant professor at the University of
New Mexico with a joint appointment in Linguistics and Spanish and Portuguese.