Department of Linguistics & TESOL | The University of Texas at Arlington

Ph.D. Linguistics

2009

Brett Benham » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: "A Longitudinal Analysis of the Vocalic Nucleus in Modern Russian"

Neal Szu-Yen Liang » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: "The Acquisition of Chinese Classifier Systems by L2 Adult Learners"
Career: Lecturer, Modern Languages, Northern Arizona University

Zdravka Radkova » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: "Phonological Processes in Contemporary Spoken Bulgarian"

Jill Riepe » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: "The Verbs of Esther: A Discourse Analysis of the Post-Exilic Text"

Paul Schaefer » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: "Narrative Storyline Marking in Safaliba: Determining the Meaning and Discourse Function of a Typologically-Suspect Pronoun Set"

Catharine Moore Welch » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: "The Emergence of Pragmatic Softeners by Instructed Learners of Spanish in the Study Abroad and Immersion Contexts."

2008

Robert Eaton » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: Kangri In Context: An Areal Perspective [via DSpace]
Career: Field Linguist (S. Asia) and Software Developer, SIL International

Wenhua Jin » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: Sounds of Chinese Korean: A Variationist Approach [via DSpace]
Career: Visiting Assistant Professor, Chinese, Clark University

Coleen Anderson Starwalt » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: The Acoustic Correlates of ATR Harmony in Seven- and Nine-Vowel African Languages: A Phonetic Inquiry into Phonological Structure [via DSpace]
Career: Field Linguist and Consultant in Training (Africa), SIL International

Traci Weast » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: Questions in American Sign Language: A Quantitative Analysis of Raised and Lowered Eyebrows [via DSpace]
Career: Assistant Professor, Deaf Studies, Lamar University

Ann Hui-yen Wang » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: (Im)politeness in casual conversation among female Mandarin speakers: A practice-based perspective

2007

Sarah May (Fauzi) » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: "Does Your Throat Hurt More In The Morning Or Throughout The Day?" "Yes.": Intercultural Medical Discourse [via DSpace]

Mark Miller » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: A Grammar of West Coast Bajau [via DSpace]
Career: Linguist & Translator, SIL International

Tracy Rundstrom Williams » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: The Textual Construction of Femininity in Women's Fitness Magazines [via DSpace]
Career: Associate Director, Center for International Studies, Texas Christian University

2006

Pamela Arlund » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: An Acoustic, Historical, and Developmental Analysis of Sarikol Tajik Diphthongs [via DSpace]
Career: Translator & Linguist, Wycliffe Bible Translators

Ahmad Saidat » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: The Syntax of Quranic Classical Arabic: A Principles and Parameters Approach [via ProQuest]
Career: Assistant Professor, Hussein bin Talal University, Jordan

2005

Youn-Jeoung Choi » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: Consonant Cluster Simplification in Korean Codas: Language-Internal and Language-External Constraints Interface with Reference to Optimality Theory [via ProQuest]
Career: Senior Researcher & Coordinator, Practical English Education Center, Hanyang University

Ervin R. Starwalt » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: A Discourse Analysis of 1 Peter [via ProQuest]
Career: Developmental Reading/Writing, The University of Texas at Arlington

2004

Mousa Btoosh » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: Interlanguage Lexicology of Arab Students of English: A Computer Learner Corpus-Based Approach [via ProQuest]
Career: Chair, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Jordan

Scott Berthiaume » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: A Phonological Grammar of Northern Pame [via ProQuest]
Career: Profesor Investigador de Tiempo Completo Nivel V, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Adscrito al Instituto de Investigaciones Humanísticas

Julie M. Kolgjini » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: Palatalization in Albanian: An Acoustic Investigation of Stops and Affricates [via ProQuest]
Career: Professor of Writing and Literature, American University of Kosovo

Tongyin Yang » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: Aspects of the Kam Language, as Revealed in Its Narrative Discourse [via ProQuest]
Career: Institute of Linguistics, Xuzhou Normal University, Jiangsu Province, China

2003

Wi-vun Taiffalo Chiung » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: Learning Efficiencies for Different Orthographies: A Comparative Study of Han Characters and Vietnamese Romanization [via ProQuest]
Career: Assistant Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Sherry L. Fariss » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: Word Order in Biblical Hebrew Poetry [via ProQuest]
Career: Bible translator/linguist, Pioneer Bible Translators

Paulette Hopple » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: The Structure of Nominalization in Burmese [via ProQuest]
Career: Linguistics Consultant, SIL International

Ji-Eun Kim » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: Native Language and Non-Linguistic Influences on the Production of English Vowels by Speakers of Korean: An Acoustic Study [via ProQuest]
Career: Assistant Professor, Kwandong University, Korea

Janet Wilson » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: Transparency and Spreading of Tense, Aspect, and Mood in Kuche Narrative Discourse [via ProQuest]
Career: Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, Global University

2002

Julia I. Dieterman » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: Secondary Palatalization in Isthmus Mixe: A Phonetic and Phonological Account [via ProQuest]

Peter Unseth » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: Bi-Consonantal Reduplication in Amharic and Ethio-Semitic [via ProQuest]
Career: Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics

2000

Deborah Johnson-Evans » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: A discourse analysis of the 1998 United States Senate candidates' pre-election debates [via proquest]
Career: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of English, UT Arlington

Kirk Person » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Sentence Final Particles in Bisu Narrative [via ProQuest]
Career: Associate Director for External Affairs, Mainland Southeast Asia Branch, SIL International

1999

Perry L. Blackburn, II » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: The Code Model of Communication: A Powerful Metaphor in Linguistic Metatheory [via ProQuest]
Career: Linguist, SIL International

Shigeko Suzuki Hironaga » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Facilitative or favorable conditions for adult learners to acquire oral proficiency in English [via ProQuest]

Shirley A. Wright » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Attitudes of Native English-Speaking Professors Toward University ESL Students [via ProQuest]

1998

Carole Greb Nix » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: The Impact of E-mail Use on Fourth Graders' Writing Skills [via ProQuest]
Career: Linguistics Consultant for the Service Fellowship International, Australia

Kathleen Tacelosky » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: A Sociolinguistic Survey of Bilingual Education Among the Shipibo of Amazonian Peru [via ProQuest]
Career: Professor of Spanish, William Jewell College

1997

Robin Lombard » Ph.D. Linguistics
Dissertation: Non-Native Speaker Collocations: A Corpus-Driven Characterization from the Writing of Native Speakers of Mandarin [via ProQuest]
Career: Terminology Research Manager, Microsoft, Seattle, WA

1996

Clive W. McClelland, III » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Interrelations of prosody, clause structure and discourse pragmatics in Tarifit Berber [via ProQuest]

Susan Clark Wykel » Ph.D. in Humanities (linguistics concentration)
Dissertation: A Contrastive Study of the Rhetorical Structure Employed in English Texts by Native Speakers of English and Native Speakers of Spanish [via ProQuest]

1989

Kyu-Cheol Kim » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: A study of iconicity in Korean: With special attention to Long and Short forms [via ProQuest]

1987

David L. Allen » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: An argument for the Lukan authorship of Hebrews [via ProQuest]

John M. Fullingim » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Unravelling murder and mayhem: An interdisciplinary study of a Wiru divination account, Papua New Guinea [via ProQuest]

Mary K. Williams » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Listening comprehension: Adult second language learners [via ProQuest]

1986

Rodolfo R. Barlaan » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Some major aspects of the focus system in Isnag [via ProQuest]

Somsonge Burusphat » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: The structure of Thai narrative discourse [via ProQuest]

David F. Oltrogge » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Proto-Quichean kinship [via ProQuest]

Susan Lynn Peterson » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Sex-based differences in English argumentative text: A tagmemic sociolinguistic perspective [via ProQuest]

Robert B. Reed » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Computer-assisted dialect adaptation: The Tucanoan experiment [via ProQuest]

Kerry S. Robichaux » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: On the interaction of linguistic texts and human knowledge [via ProQuest]

1984

Takashi Manabe » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: A speech act theory based interpretation model for written texts [via ProQuest]

1983

Imanuel Gulabbhai Christian » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Linguistic and cultural analysis of three Gujarati folktales [via ProQuest]

David B. Frank » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Conversation and the speech situation: a tagmemic analysis [via ProQuest]

Andrew F. Gallman, II » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Proto East Mindanao and its internal relationships [via ProQuest]

Michael R. Walrod » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Philosophy of normative discourse and persuasion: A study of Ga'dang exhortation and argumentation [via ProQuest]

1981

Shin Ja Joo Hwang » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Aspects of Korean narration [via ProQuest]

Helen L. Miehle » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Theme in Greek hortatory discourse: Van Dijk and Beekman-Callow approaches applied to 1 John [via ProQuest]

David H. Boltz » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Synoptic asymmetry: An inter-disciplinary approach to the synoptic problem [via ProQuest]

1980

Larry B. Jones » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Pragmatic aspects of English text structure [via ProQuest]

Stephen L. Walter » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: Application of a cognitive model of linguistic structure to the analysis of selected problems in Tzeltal (Mayan) grammar [via ProQuest]
Career: Chair, Department of Language Development, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (GIAL) Dallas, TX

Richard L. Watson » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: A grammar of two Pacoh texts [via ProQuest]

Frances M. Woods » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: The interrelationship of cultural information, linguistic structure, and symbolic representations in a Halbi myth [via ProQuest]

1977

Mildred L. Larson » Ph.D. Humanities
Dissertation: The functions of reported speech in discourse [via ProQuest]

M.A. Linguistics & M.A. TESOL

2009

Chris Aufdembrink » M.A. TESOL

Charles Compton » M.A. TESOL
Career: English Instructor, Chung Dam Institute, Korea

Myouhghee Im » M.A. Linguistics

Naomi Weiwen Lan » M.A. Linguistics

Presley McFadden » M.A. TESOL

Thesis: Are We Speaking the Same Language?: The Use of the Mother Tongue by Native English Speaking Teachers in English as a Foreign Language Classrooms.
Career: English Lecturer, Singapore Institute of Commerce

Hana Ouattara » M.A. TESOL

Reem Soliman » M.A. TESOL

Adam Stein » M.A. TESOL

John D. Stutler » M.A. TESOL

Ana Yordanova » M.A. TESOL

Gabrielle Zimmerman » M.A. Linguistics

Lisabeth Zuercher » M.A. TESOL

2008

Winnie Hsing-hui Chiu » M.A. TESOL
Thesis: Practical Understandings: Teachers' Beliefs and Practices of Pronunciation Teaching

D. Gay Ford » M.A. TESOL
Career: Founder & Director, Culture Connection

Anna Gann » M.A. TESOL
Career: ESOL Faculty & Coordinator at El Centro College

Courtney Gillette » M.A. Linguistics

Erin Gonzales » M.A. Linguistics
Thesis: The Language of the University: A Systemic Functional Analysis [via DSpace]

Peter Hargrave » M.A. TESOL

Ramona Haynes » M.A. TESOL

Laura Humphries » M.A. TESOL

Keiko Kakishita » M.A. TESOL

Joshua Kested » M.A. TESOL
Career: Instructor & Graduate Student Coordinator, University of Dallas English Language Program

Monica Kowarsch-Martinez » M.A. TESOL

Georgianna Noel » M.A. Linguistics
Thesis: An Examination of the Tone System of Fur and Its Function in Grammar [via DSpace]

Karla Parra » M.A. TESOL

Carmen Seitan » M.A. Linguistics
Career: Adjunct Instructor of English Composition, Houston Community College Southwest

2007

Albert Archer » M.A. Linguistics
Career: Computer Lab Assistant, Collin County Community College

Michael Blumer » M.A. Linguistics

Su-Hui Irene Chen » M.A. TESOL
Career: Assistant to the VP, Prodisc Technology Co, Ltd

Heather Leilani Clark » M.A. TESOL
Thesis: Students' Noticing and Incorporation of Written Feedback: A Snapshot of ESOL Writing Instructors' Commentary on Adult ESOL Students' Essays [via DSpace]

John Drezek » M.A. TESOL
Thesis: Adult ESOL Reading Comprehension and Text-to-Speech Software [via DSpace]
Career: Instructor, English Language Institute, UT Arlington

Cherry Neill » M.A. TESOL
Career: ESL and Literacy Volunteer

D. Jane Pappenhagen » M.A. TESOL

Danielle Plauché » M.A. TESOL
Thesis: Legitimate Strategies in Writing: Exploring ESOL Learner Perspectives on Attribution [via DSpace]

Elissa Polley » M.A. TESOL
Thesis: Learner Perceptions of Small Group and Pair Work in the ESL Classroom: Implications for Conditions in Second Language Acquisition [via DSpace]

Yvonne Schnitzius » M.A. Linguistics & M.A. TESOL
Career: German Language Teacher, Covenant Christian Academy

Justin Stanford » M.A. TESOL

2006

Teri Anglim » M.A. TESOL
Career: ESOL Instructor, Tarrant County College & Weatherford College

Katya Sido » M.A. Linguistics
Career: Program Manager 1-2-1 Tutoring Program, The Community College Foundation

Debra Wainscott » M.A. TESOL
Career: Assistant Director of International Education, East Texas Bapist University

Patrick Whitsel » M.A. TESOL
Career: ESOL Instructor, Brookhaven College

2005

Claudia Alexander » M.A. TESOL
Career: Executive Director, The Turning Point Rape Crisis Center

Frank Bailey » M.A. TESOL
Thesis: Overseas Language Learning Experience: Student Beliefs About Their Teachers' Qualifications [via DSpace]
Career: Lecturer, Department of English Literature, Baiko Gakuin University, Shimonoseki, Japan

Marvin Beachy » M.A. Linguistics
Thesis: An Overview of Central Dizin Phonology and Morphology [via DSpace]

Yoon Kyoung Grace Choe » M.A. TESOL
Career: English Teacher, Incheon Foreign Language Training Center

Bethany Haynes » M.A. Linguistics
Career: English Teaching Assistant, Government of France

Carolyn Sifferman » M.A. TESOL
Career: ESOL Instructor, Tarrant Community College & University of Dallas

Kelly Walter » M.A. TESOL
Thesis: The Eritrean English Curriculum: Grades 2-6, Assessing Academic Readiness [via ProQuest]

Kenneth Zuercher » M.A. Linguistics
Career: Academic Advisor, UT Arlington, Interdisciplinary Studies

2004

Michael B. Ahland » M.A. Linguistics
Thesis: Language Death in Mesmes: A Sociolinguistic and Historical-Comparative Examination of a Disappearing Language [via ProQuest]
Career: Ph.D. student, University of Oregon

Colleen A. Ahland » M.A. Linguistics
Thesis: Linguistic Variation within Gumuz: A Study of the Relationship Between Historical Change and Intelligibility [via ProQuest]
Career: Ph.D. student, University of Oregon

Betty McGregor Verma » M.A. TESOL
Career: ESOL Instructional Associate, North Lake College

Brianna G. Rauschuber » M.A. Linguistics
Thesis: Code-Switching in the Speech of Spanish-English Bilinguals [via ProQuest]
Career: Ph.D. student, UT Austin

Robyn Troxell » M.A. TESOL
Career: ESOL Instructor, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

2003

Ahmad Saidat » M.A. Linguistics
Thesis: A Sociolinguistic Comparison of the Syntax of Modern Standard Arabic and Jordanian Arabic [via ProQuest]
Career: See above (Ph.D. Linguistics 2006)

2002

David E. Howard » M.A. Linguistics
Thesis: Continuity and Given-New Status of Discourse Referents in Adzera Oral Narrative [via ProQuest]

2003

Caroline Decoux » M.A. TESOL

Roger Kennedy » M.A. TESOL

2000

Teresa Jade » M.A. Linguistics
Career: Director of Technology and Development, H5

Jeongyi Lee » M.A. Linguistics
Thesis: A model of writing variety: Language attitudes toward Korean writing varieties
Career: Lecturer, Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington

1999

Michelle Miller » M.A. Linguistics
Career: Instructor for the Intensive English Program, UT Arlington

1998

Man-ni Chu » M.A. Linguistics
Career: Research Assistant for the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Sylvia M. Martinez » M.A. Linguistics
Career: Assistant Director of Enrollment Management Services for Mountain View College, Dallas

Dee Dee Williams » M.A. Linguistics
Career: Childcare Worker for The Baptist Children's Village of Mississippi

1997

Esther H. Kim » M.A. Linguistics
Career: National Geographic, Dallas

1996

Nancy Baum » M.A. Linguistics
Career: Writing Skills Coordinator for the Intensive English Program, UT Arlington

Taehong Cho » M.A. Linguistics
Career: Assistant Professor, Division of English Language and Literature, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Tanya Vernon » M.A. Linguistics

1994

Chaz Mortensen » M.A. Linguistics
Career: Linguist/Translator and Linguistic Consultant for the Summer Institute of Linguistics, International