Advising

Listed below are researchers and students I have advised or co-advised:

Postdoctoral

  • Carrie Dyck. 1994–96. Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (jointly supervised with K. Rice and E. Dresher of the University of Toronto).

Ph.D.

  • Richard Hatcher. In progress. The Phonetics and Phonology of Cayuga Prosody. UB.
  • Montgomery Hill. 2020. A Revitalization Grammar of Tuscarora. UB.
  • Samantha Cornelius. 2018. Prosodic Phonology in Oklahoma Cherokee. External committee member. University of Texas, Arlington.
  • Megan Lukaniec. 2018. The elaboration of verbal structure: Wendat (Huron) verb morphology. External committee member, UC Santa Barbara.
  • Hiroto Uchihara. 2013. The Suprasegmental System of Oklahoma Cherokee. UB.
  • Yukiko Sugiyama. 2008. The Nature of Japanese Pitch Accent: An Experimental Study. (Co-advised with Jim Sawusch) UB.
  • Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier. 2007. The Perception of Vowel Quantity: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation. (Co-advised with Doug Whalen) UB.
  • Percy Abrams. 2006. Onondaga Pronominal Prefixes. UB.
  • Ameyo Awuku. 2006. Physio-psychological concept expressions in Ewe: a syntax-semantics lexicon. UB.
  • Matthew Davidson. 2002. Topics in Southern Wakashan (Nootkan) Grammar. UB.
  • Craig Kopris. 2001. A Grammar and Dictionary of Wyandot. UB.
  • Yongnam Um. 2001. Tone and related phonological aspects of Middle Korean and Modern Korean dialects with special reference to vowel length. UB.
  • Fengxian Li. 1993. Diachronic study of V-V compounds in Chinese. UB.
  • Harry Bochner. 1988. The forms of words: A theory of lexical relationships. (Co-advised with Jill Carrier) Harvard University.
  • Norman Janis. 1987. A grammar of Biblical accents. Harvard University.
  • Wendy Lewis. 1986. The loss of the strong conjugation in Middle Irish. (Co-advised with Calvert Watkins) Harvard University.

M.A. / Qualifying Paper

  • Richard Hatcher. 2017. Word Order in Iroquoian (Oneida). UB.
  • Thomas Diaz. 2016. An Information-based Morphology Approach to Pronominal Prefixes in Oneida. UB.
  • Monty Hill. 2015. Measuring Newsworthiness: Towards a Rigorous Model of Discourse Phenomena in Tuscarora. UB.
  • Heike Lehnert. 2002. Phonetic and Phonological Aspects of Liquid Devoicing in Thai, Hungarian, and American English. UB.
  • Cori Grimm. 1997. The Phonetic realization of Pitch Accent in the Ontario Dialect of Oneida. UB.
  • Alissa Melinger. 1997. Syllabification, Foot Structure and Accent in Seneca. UB.
  • Jordan Lachler. 1994. Seneca aspect suffixes and the Alternating Base Hypothesis. UB.
  • Anna Keusen. 1994. The focus on Ne:’ in Cayuga. UB.
  • Craig Kopris. 1994. An RRG account of the distribution of Seneca pronominal affixes. UB.
  • Kathy Binns. 1994. To be or not to be: zero in linguistic description. UB.
  • Ryang-Sang Oh. 1991. Syllable Structure in Korean. UB.

B.A.

  • Julia Cordani. 2019. A Single-Speaker Profile of the Sounds of the Seneca Language. UB.
  • Hadley Houck. 2019. Are Trumpets Really Arrogant? Instruments as Metaphors. UB.
  • Jacob Morse. 2016. Variation between Utterance-initial /h/ and /ʔ/ in Oneida. UB.
  • Christian T. DiCanio. 2001. Prosodic Domains in Co-constructed Speech: Intonational Overlay. UB.
  • Rolf Noyer. 1988. Formal problems in the phonology and morphology of Welsh and Irish consonant mutation (Summa cum laude). Harvard University.
  • David Silva. 1986. New perspectives on the Portuguese vowel shift. Harvard University.
  • Greg Maggs. 1985. Rules of synchronic metathesis (Summa cum laude). Harvard University.
  • George Aaron Broadwell. 1983. Against metrical feet in Hebrew (Summa cum laude). Harvard University.