Since 1999, most theses and dissertations submitted by graduate students at the university are published online in the UGA Electronic Theses and Dissertations Database (ETD). This page is a list of recent theses and dissertations produced by graduates of the University of Georgia M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Linguistics, with a link to the UGA ETD page for the pdf file. 2022 Dissertations Andrew Robert Bray. Ph.D., 2022.A Hockey-Based Persona: The Sociolinguistic Impact of Canadian English on American-Born PlayersAdvisor: Chad Howe Kit Callaway. Ph.D., 2022.From Ey to Ze: Gender-neutral Pronouns as Pronominal ChangeAdvisor: Chad Howe Katherine Ireland Kuiper. Ph.D., 2022.Patterns of Health: A Corpus Analysis of Health Information and MessagingAdvisor: William A. Kretzschmar Rachel Miller Olsen. Ph.D., 2022.IT’S ALL IN HOW YOU SAY IT: PROSODIC CUES TO SOCIAL IDENTITY AND EMOTIONAdvisor: Margaret E. L. Renwick Shannon Penton Rodriguez. Ph.D., 2022.Constructing, Performing, and Indexing “Southern” Latino Identities: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the Intersection of Ethnicity and Place in the Speech of Young Adult Latinos in GeorgiaAdvisor: Chad Howe Theses Rachel A. Ankirskiy. M.A., 2022.VARIATION IN JAPANESE NOMINAL PARTICLE OMISSION: TOWARDS A CORPUS-BASED SYNTACTIC ANALYSISAdvisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld Joseph Finnegan Beckwith. M.A., 2022.THE DECLINE OF THE SIMPLE PAST: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SIMPLE AND COMPOUND PAST FORMS IN ROMANCE AND GERMANIC LANGUAGESAdvisor: Jared Klein 2021 Dissertations Lisa Lipani. Ph.D., 2021.Subphonemic Variation in English Stops: Studies using automated methods and large-scale dataAdvisor: Margaret Renwick Michael Olsen. Ph.D., 2021.CULTURAL KEYWORDS IN AMERICAN EDITORIAL DISCOURSEAdvisor: William A. Kretzschmar Theses Bailey Bigott. M.A., 2021.Mock Infantile Speech: A Sociolinguistics PerspectiveAdvisor: Jon Forrest Kora Layce Burton. M.A., 2021.Lexical and Thematic "Peculiar Mood" Development of Faërie Language in the Germanic Cauldron of StoryAdvisor: Jared Klein Mary Caroline Clabby. M.A., 2021.Comme Y’all Voulez: Translanguaging Practices in Digitally Mediated CommunicationAdvisor: Linda Harklau Jordan Grace Graham. M.A., 2021.#WHOSE LIVES MATTER: A MIXED MEDIA ANALYSIS OF THE #BLACKLIVESMATTER AND #BLUELIVESMATTER ON TWITTER DURING THE SUMMER OF 2020Advisor: John Hale 2020 Dissertations Lindsey Antonini. Ph.D., 2020.The Copula in MalayalamAdvisor: Pilar Chamorro Joey Stanley. Ph.D., 2020.Vowel Dynamics of the Elsewhere Shift: A Sociophonetic Analysis of English in Cowlitz County, WashingtonAdvisor: Lewis Chadwick Howe Longlong Wang. Ph.D.., 2020.The Past Tenses in Colloquial Singapore EnglishAdvisor: Pilar Chamorro 2019 Dissertations Douglas C. Merchant. Ph.D., 2019.Idioms at the interface(s): towards a psycholinguistically grounded model of sentence generationAdvisor: Timothy Gupton Theses Aidan Oliver Cheney-Lynch. M.A., 2019.Studies in feminine derivation in VedicAdvisor: Jared Klein Conni Diane Covington. M.A., 2019.Frequency and the German(ic) verb: a historical sociolinguistic study of class VIIAdvisor: Joshua Bousquette William James Lackey III. M.A., 2019.Denasalization in early austronesianAdvisor: Jared Klein Kelly Wade Petronis. M.A., 2019.Finding the game: a conversation analysis of laughables and play frames in comedic improvAdvisor: Ruth Harman 2018 Dissertations Mohammad Fahad Aljutaily. Ph.D. 2018.The influence of linguistic and non-linguistic factors on the variation of Arabic marked consonants in the speech of Gulf Pidgin Arabic : acoustic analysisAdvisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe Sofia Alexandrovna Ivanova. Ph.D. 2018.Cue weighting in the acquisition of four American English vowel contrasts by native speakers of RussianCo-Advisors: Victoria Hasko and Keith Langston Elisabeth Wood Anderson Lacross. Ph.D. 2018.Variation in future temporal reference in southern FranceAdvisor: Diana Ranson Sandra McGury. Ph.D. 2018.Passives are tough to analyzeAdvisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld Amanda Nicole Walls. Ph.D. 2018.Israel's Pagan PassoverAdvisor: Richard Friedman Theses Alexander Ankirskiy. M.A. 2018.Investigating the potential for merger of Icelandic 'flámæli' vowel pairs through functional loadAdvisor: Margaret Renwick Ryan Michael Dekker. M.A. 2018.Income effects on speech community: : Oconee County within northeastern GeorgiaAdvisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe Nicole Elizabeth Dreier. M.A. 2018.Gender in Proto-Indo-European and the feminine morphemesAdvisor: Jared Klein Melissa Ann Gomes. M.A. 2018.A Holistic Analysis of Get ConstructionsAdvisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld Jason D Hagler. M.A. 2018.Call of qatullu: towards an understanding of the semantic role of terminal root consonant reduplication in the Semitic languagesAdvisor: Baruch Halpern 2017 Theses Joshua Robert Hummel. M.A. 2017.Conflict's connotation: a study of protest and riot in contemporary news mediaAdvisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe Madeline Asher Jones. M.A. 2017.The impact of EFL teacher motivational strategies on student motivation to learn english in Costa RicaAdvisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld Mariah Lillian Copeland Parker. M.A. 2017.Flippin' the script, joustin' from the mouth: a systemic functional linguistic approach to hip hop discourseAdvisor: Ruth Harman Christa August Rampley. M.A. 2017.Ratchet: an etymological origin & social dispersion theoryAdvisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe Joseph Thomas Rhyne. M.A. 2017.Quantifying the comparative method: applying computational approaches to the Balto-Slavic questionAdvisor: Jared Klein 2016 Dissertations Wei Chen. Ph.D. 2016.The impact of environmental factors on the production of english narratives by Spanish-English bilingual childrenAdvisor: Liang Chen Richard Moses Katz Jr. Ph.D. 2016.The resultative in GothicAdvisor: Jared Klein Martin Jakub Macak. Ph.D. 2016.Studies in classical and modern Armenian phonology Advisor: Jared Klein Judith Allen Oliver. Ph.D. 2016.When fingerspelling throws a curveballAdvisor: William Kretzschmar Andrew Michael Paczkowski. Ph.D. 2016.Toward a new method for analyzing syntax in poetry: discriminating grammatical patterns in the RigvedaAdvisor: Jared Klein Jennimaria Kristiina Palomaki. Ph.D. 2016.The pragmatics and syntax of the Finnish -han particle cliticAdvisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld Theses Calvin Ferst. M.A. 2016.Walhalla: language shift in the garden of the godsAdvisor: Joshua Bousquette Maisy Elizabeth French. M.A. 2016.When orthography and phonology collide: an examination of the effect of orthography on the phonetic production of homophonesAdvisor: Margaret Renwick Karen Elizabeth Sesterhenn. M.A. 2016.An overview of the phenomenon of doublets in EnglishAdvisor: Jared Klein 2015 Dissertations Steven Slone Coats. Ph.D. 2015.Finland Twitter English: lexical, grammatical, and geographical propertiesAdvisor: William Kretzschmar Xiangyu Jiang. Ph.D. 2015.Ultimate attainment in the production of narratives by Chinese-English bilingualsAdvisor: Liang Chen Rachel Virginia Nabulsi. Ph.D. 2015.Burial practices, funerary texts, and the treatment of death in Iron Age Israel and AramAdvisor: Richard Friedman Tomoe Nishio. Ph.D. 2015.Negotiating contradictions in a Japanese-American telecollaboration: an activity theory analysis of online intercultural exchangeAdvisor: Linda Harklau Xiaodong Zhang. Ph.D. 2015.A discourse approach to teachers? beliefs and textbook use: a case study of a Chinese college EFL classroomAdvisor: Ruth Harman Theses Michael Reid Ariail. M.A. 2015.Language and dialectal variation in request structures: an analysis of Costa Rican Spanish and southern American EnglishAdvisor: Sarah Blackwell Eleanor Detreville. M.A. 2015.An overview of Latin morphological calques on Greek technical terms: formation and successAdvisor: Jared Klein Luke Madison Smith. M.A. 2015.External possession and the undisentanglability of syntax and semanticsAdvisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld 2014 Dissertations Scott Lee. Ph.D. 2014.The phonetics of intonation in learner varieties of FrenchAdvisor: Keith Langston Theses Laura Brewer. M.A. 2014.Cognitive connections between linguistic and musical syntax: an optimality theoretic approachAdvisor: Keith Langston Courtney Ann Macer. M.A. 2014.Relearning heritage language phonologyAdvisor: Margaret Renwick Tiffany Strickland. M.A. 2014.Eat their words: a corpus-based analysis of grocery store discourseAdvisor: Jonathan Evans Julia Catherine Patterson Sturm. M.A. 2014.Idiomatization of preverb + verb compounds in the ?g VedaAdvisor: Jared Klein 2013 Dissertations Kenneth Jeffrey Knight. Ph.D. 2013.L1 English vocalic transfer in L2 JapaneseAdvisor: Don McCreary Heather Lee Mello. Ph.D. 2013.Analysis of language variation and word segmentation for a corpus of Vietnamese blogs: a sociolinguistic approachAdvisor: William Kretzschmar Hugo Enrique Mendez. Ph.D. 2013.Canticles in translation: the treatment of poetic language in the Greek, Gothic, Classical Armenian, and Old Church Slavonic gospelsAdvisor: Jared Klein Theses Nicole Elizabeth Siffrinn. M.A. 2013.Using appraisal analysis to map value systems in high-stakes writing rubricsAdvisor: Ruth Harman 2012 Dissertations Mark Raymund Wenthe. Ph.D. 2012.Issues in the placement of enclitic personal pronouns in the RigvedaAdvisor: Jared Klein Theses Ellen Marie Ayres. M.A. 2012.Influences on gender agreement in adjectives among adult learners of SpanishAdvisor: Don McCreary Marcus Paul Berger. M.A. 2012.Parallel hierarchies: a minimalist analysis of nominals and gerundsAdvisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld Kelly Patricia Dugan. M.A. 2012.A generative approach to homeric enjambment: benefits and drawbacksAdvisor: Jared Klein Kristen Marie Fredriksen. M.A. 2012.Constraints on perfect auxiliary contraction: evidence from spoken American EnglishAdvisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe Anastasia Nikolaevna Sorokina. M.A. 2012.The dynamics of bilingual mental lexcon: the effects of partical conceptual equivalence on acquisition of Russian as an L2Advisor: Victoria Hasko Allison Rebecca Wachter. M.A. 2012.Semantic prosody and intensifier variation in academic speechAdvisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe Sam Zukoff. M.A. 2012.The phonology of verbal reduplication in Ancient Greek: an Optimality Theory approachAdvisor: Jared Klein 2011 Dissertations Radia Benzehra. Ph.D. 2011.Arabic-English/ English-Arabic lexicography: a critical perspectiveAdvisor: Don McCreary Satomi Suzuki Chenoweth. Ph.D. 2011.Novice language learners? Off-screen verbal and nonverbal behaviors during university synchronous Japanese virtual educationAdvisors: Kathryn Roulston & Linda Harklau Willie Udo Willie. Ph.D. 2011.Lexical aspect and lexical saliency in acquisition of past tense-aspect morphology among Ibibio ESL learnersAdvisor: Lioba Moshi Theses Renee Lorraine Kemp. M.A. 2011.The perception of German dorsal fricatives by native speakers of EnglishAdvisor: Keith Langston Erin Beltran Mitchelson. M.A. 2011.Implicature use in L2Advisor: Don McCreary Justin Victor Sperlein. M.A. 2011.A Phonetic Summarizer for Sociolinguists: concordancing by phonetic criteriaAdvisor: William Kretzschmar 2010 Dissertations Garrison E. Bickerstaff Jr. Ph.D. 2010.Construction and application of Bounded Virtual Corpora of British and American EnglishAdvisor: William Kretzschmar Paulina Bounds. Ph.D. 2010.Perception versus production of Polish speech: Pozna?Advisor: William Kretzschmar Alberto Centeno-Pulido. Ph.D. 2010.Reconciling generativist and functionalist approaches on adjectival position in SpanishAdvisor: Sarah Blackwell Janay Crabtree. Ph.D. 2010.Roads and paths in adaptation to non-native speech and implications for second language acquisitionAdvisor: Don McCreary Jeff Kilpatrick. Ph.D. 2010.The development of Latin post-tonic /Cr/ clusters in select Northern Italian dialectsAdvisor: Jared Klein Joseph Allen Pennington. Ph.D. 2010.A study of purpose, result, and casual hypotaxis in early Indo-European gospel versionsAdvisor: Jared Klein Theses Aram Cho. M.A. 2010.Influence of L1 on L2 learners of Korean: a perception test on Korean vowels and stop consonantsAdvisor: Don McCreary Frances Rankin Gray. M.A. 2010.It's like 120 milliseconds: a search for grammaticalization in the duration of like in five functionsAdvisor: Don McCreary Magdalene Sophia Jacobs. M.A. 2010.The decline of the French passe simple: a variationist analysis of the passÉ simple and passe compose in selected texts from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuriesAdvisor: Diana Ranson Nathan Loggins. M.A. 2010.Mandarin loanword phonology: a case study of three English mid vowelsAdvisor: Keith Langston Caley Charles Smith. M.A. 2010.The development of final [asterisk]/-as/ in Pre-VedicAdvisor: Jared Klein
