Since 2009, most theses submitted by M.A. and M.S. recipients at the university are published online at the OhioLINK Electronic Theses & Dissertations Center (EDT). This page lists theses submitted by recipients of the M.A. in Linguistics, beginning with the more recent theses which are avalable through EDT. We are currently in the process of extending the list back to the first OSU M.A. in Linguistics (Thomas Scovel's thesis on A distinctive feature analysis of the phonemic segments of Mandarin in 1964), and intend to provide a link to a pdf file or other publication information where available and otherwise a link to the OSU Library Catalog listing.
2019
Riley Wagner
The Perception of Loan Verb Integration Strategies in Romanian
Committee: Brian Joseph (advisor) and Andrea Sims
Giorgio Sbardolini
Conventions and Change in Semantics
Committee: Craige Roberts (advisor)
2017
Zachary De
Race, Gender, and /u/: Social Perceptions of a Non-Stereotype Feature
Committee: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (advisor) and Donald Winford
2016
Ajda Zeynep Gokcen
A Matter of Debate: Using Dialogue Relation Labels to Augment (Dis)agreement Analysis of Debate Data
Committee: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (advisor) and Brian Joseph
Eric Snyder
Generalizing Individuating/Measure-Ambiguities
Committee: Craige Roberts and Shapiro Stewart (co-advisors)
Jennifer Qian Zhang
Nonsibilant Fricative Acquisition by Bilingual Guoyu-Taiwanese Southern Min Children
Committee: Mary Beckman (advisor) and Micha Elsner
Yourdanis Sedarous
Studies in Nominal Modification in Bohairic Coptic
Committee: Peter Culicover and Brian Joseph (co-advisors)
2015
Lara Downing
Dutchified English in an Ohio Mennonite Community
Committee: Brian Joseph and Donald Winford
Gregory Kierstead
Projectivity and the Tagalog Reportative Evidential
Committee: Craige Roberts and Judith Tonhauser (co-advisors)
2013
Robert Brice Russ
Examining Regional Variation Through Online Geotagged Corpora
Committee: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler and Brian Joseph
Since receiving his MA in Linguistics, Brice Russ has worked as a social media / policy consultant, including serving a three-year term as the first Director of Communications for the LSA.
Jeffrey Parker
Palatalization and Utilization of Contrast: An Information-theoretic Investigation of Palatalization in Russian
Committee: Brian Joseph and Andrea Sims
After receiving his MA in Linguistics, Jeffrey Parker transferred back to the Slavic Linguistics program, where he is currently finishing his dissertation before taking up a faculty position in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Brigham Young University.
Eric Ruppe
"Y'all Done Up and Done It": The Semantics of a Perfect Construction in an Upstate South Carolina Dialect
Committee: Donald Winford and Judith Tonhauser
After receiving his MA, Eric Ruppe accepted the position of French immersion teacher at Meadow Glen Middle School in Lexington, SC.
2012
Michelle Dionisio
The Syntax and Semantics of the Tagalog Plural Marker Mga
Committee: Judith Tonhauser and Craige Roberts
Sara Phillips-Bourass
Implicit Imitation of Regional Dialects in Typically Developing Adults and Adults with High-Functioning Autism
Committee: Cynthia Clopper and Shari Speer
Michael Collins
Cognitive Perspectives On English Word Order
Committee: William Schuler and Peter Culicover
Hartman Brawley
What Informs Event Descriptions: Language, Salience, and Discourse in English and Japanese
Committee: Laura Wagner, Shari Speer, and Kiwako Ito
2010
Lia Mansfield
A CVG Approach to Verp-Particle Constructions in English
Committee: Carl Pollard and Robert Levine
Youn Kyung Shin
Variability in the Use of Infinitival to in Present Day American English
Committee: Brian Joseph, Robert Levine, and Donald Winford
Oxana Skorniakova
Sensitivity to Sub-Phonemic Variation: Evidence from a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) Goodness-Rating Task
Committee: Mary Beckman and Shari Speer
Sarah Bibyk
The Development of Children’s Processing of English Pitch Accents in a Visual Search Task
Committee: Shari Speer, Laura Wagner, Cynthia Clopper, and Kiwako Ito
After receiving her MA, Sarah Bibyk was accepted into the doctoral program at the University of Rochester.
2009
John Pate
Parsing with Local Content
Committee: Chris Brew, Laura Wagner, and Shari Speer
After receiving his MA, John Pate went on to earn a PhD at the University of Edinburgh and was a post-doctoral research fellow in Machine Learning and Computational Linguistics at Macquarie University before taking up his current position on the faculty in Linguistics at the University of Buffalo.
Cory Shain
Differential Object Marking in Paraguayan Guaraní
Committee: Judith Tonhauser and Peter Culicover
After receiving his MA, Cory Shain worked for several years as a linguist at SIL International before returning to Ohio State University and entering the doctoral program in Linguistics.
Rachel Shain
The Preverb Eis- and Koine Greek Aktionsart
Committee: Judith Tonhauser, Brian Joseph, and Craige Roberts
2008
Ross Metusalem
Evoking Upcoming Contrast through Accentual Prominence: The Effect of Producing L+H* on Discourse Entities and Discourse Markers
Committee: Kiwako Ito and Shari Speer
After receiving his MA, Ross Metusalem went on to earn a PhD in Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego, where he is now teaching in the Department of Psychology.
Jon Stevens
The Old English Demonstrative: A Synchronic and Diachronic Investigation
Committee: Brian Joseph and Judith Tonhauser
After receiving his MA, Jon Stevens went on to earn a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania before taking up his current position on a postdoctoral researcher on the PRAGSales project in computational pragmatics at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin.
Sharon Ross
Interpretation by Adults and Children of Implicatures Generated through Contrastive Stress: Evidence that Prosodic Contrastive Stress has a Predominantly Presuppositional Character
Committee: Peter Culicover and Laura Wagner
After receiving her MA, Sharon Ross become a Fulbright Scholar doing research on The Semantics of Focus Marking and Contrastive Stress in Israeli Sign Language at the University of Haifa.