Department of Linguistics
The Department of Linguistics at Georgetown has about 80 undergraduate majors (BA, Linguistics) and approximately 130 graduate students (MAT, MS, PhD, Linguistics). Email addresses for our current students can be found through the University's main directory: http://contact.georgetown.edu/
Learn about the GLSA (Graduate Linguistics Student Association)
Current Graduate Students (not exhaustive):
Allbritten, Rachael M.
Althaus, Randy
Balkan, Aysun
Barbeau, Nikki
Brandstetter, Corinne
Carpenter, Helen
Checchia, Sonia
Cochrane, Leslie
Dembinska-Lemus, Karolina Maria
Diercks, Michael
Eom, Soojeong
Feizollahi, Zhaleh
Fidler, Ashley Elmendorf
Fogle, Lyn Wright
Fond, Marissa
Gallagher, Colleen
Goo, Jaemyung
Gruber, James
Harris, Shelley
Howald, Esq., Blake Stephen
Hutchinson, Corinne
Jacobsen, Natalia Dolgova
Jamsu, Jermay
Jelinek, Kathleen
Kalinski, Michelle Duvall
Kelly, Justin R.
Krawczyk, Elizabeth
Kulagina, Katerina Y.
Logan-Terry, Aubrey
Lou, Jia Jackie
Ronkin, Maggie
Rubin, Rebecca
Rus, Dominik
Sachs, Rebecca
Scialabba, Jeff
Sclafani, Jennifer
Shea, Mark
Sondermann, Kerstin
Soukup, Barbara
Stockburger, Inge
Suh, Bo-Ram
Trester, Anna Marie
Vail, Peter
Vallila, Sofia
Vecchi, Eva Maria
Wang, Sook Young
Weger-Guntharp, Heather
Williams, Kathleen Clagett
Wright, Jamie Lepore
Zubair, Cala Ann
Concentration: Sociolinguistics/Computational Linguistics
Website: http://rallbritten.googlepages.com/
Research Interests: Quantitative Variation/Machine Translation
Rachael works primarily in English dialectal Variation, particularly in the American South. Her research so far has been in the suburban area around Huntsville, AL. She is interested in many different aspects of Southern English, including the Southern Vowel Shift, language change, monophthongization, and others. She is also interested in the ways people use language to construct their identities, both long- and short-term. Within Computational Linguistics, she focuses on Machine Translation and is currently working on a project for post-editing of Arabic to English MT. Her crossover is quantitative work on corpus linguistics and an interest in Speech Processing of dialects.
Presentations:
"The Anatomy of a Sociolinguistic Interview." Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 35, Columbus, OH, 2006
"Automated MT Improvement Through Post-Editing Techniques: Developing an MT Error Taxonomy." Paper presented at the Association for Machine Translation of the Americas, Cambridge, MA, 2006
"The Southern Vowel Shift in Alabama: The Role of Urban Orientation in Intra-Community Variation." Paper presented at the South Eastern Conference on Linguistics, Auburn, AL, 2006
Concentration: MAT TESOL
Students, TALGS, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. (February 19, 2005)
Concentration: Sociolinguistics
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Concentration:Theoretical Linguistics
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Presentations:
“A Study in Syntactic Variation: Double Modal Constructions,” paper presented at NWAV 35, November 2006.
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“Imperative Subjects in Southern American English and Standard American English," GUWPTL Vol 4 (also an editor of this volume), March 2005.
Concentration: Applied Linguistics Ph.D.
Websites: http://www.georgetown.edu/users/carpenth/ or http://brainlang.georgetown.edu/gradstud.htm#Carpenter
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Presentations:
Carpenter, H. S. and Ullman, M. T. (2006). A Neurocognitive Approach to the Study of Second Language Aptitude. Poster. East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT), Washington, DC.
Carpenter, H. S. and Ullman, M. T. (2006). Beyond the MLAT: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on L2 Aptitude. Paper. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Seattle, Washington.
Moffa, M., Lee, S., Carpenter, H. S. and Ullman, M. T. (April 2005). Left handedness, Procedural Memory, and Grammar. Poster. Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), New York, New York.
Publications:
Carpenter, H., Jeon, K. S., MacGregor, D., & Mackey, A. (2006). Learners’ interpretations of recasts. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 28(2), 209-236.
Malabonga, V., Kenyon, D., and Carpenter, H. S. (2005). Self-assessment, Preparation, and Response Time on a Computerized Oral Proficiency Test. Language Testing, 22(1), 59-92.
Kenyon, D., Malabonga, V., and Carpenter, H. S. (2001). Response to Norris Commentary. Language Learning and Technology, 5.
Concentration: M.A. in Language and Communication
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Concentration: Sociolinguistics
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Presentations:
"Be + Like: A Pragmatic Approach to the Quotative." Paper to be presented at the Georgetown University Roundtable on Language and Linguistics, Washington, DC, 2007.
Concentration: Sociolinguistics
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(2006) "Evidence of Conversational Dominance via Multimodal Discourse Analysis" Panel with Sigrid Norris and Anthony Garcia.Hawai'i International Conference on Arts and Humanities.
(2005) "Language, Ethnicity, and Identity: A Case Study" Poster Presented at Georgetown Linguistics Society Conference 2005.
Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics
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Concentration: Computational Linguistics
Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/se48/
Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics
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Concentration: General, emphasizing language acquisition
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Ashley is currently working towards a PhD in Linguistics with a focus on child language development. She received an MSc in Developmental Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 2004. Her thesis work compared psychological and linguistic approaches to the study of child language. At Georgetown, Ashley’s research interests center on the acquisition of case morphology by child speakers of Hungarian, as well as on the relationship between cognitive development and language acquisition more broadly.
Publications:
2006. Reconceptualizing fossilization in second langauge acquisition: a review. Second Language Research, 22(3), 398-411.
Concentration: Applied Linguistics
Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/erw2
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Presentations:
Fogle, L. (2006). English only in the EFL classroom? A look at classroom language policies. AU TESOL alumni workshop, Washington, DC.
Fogle, L. (2006, July). 'These are not kids with ESL': Examining adoptive parents’ talk about second language learning and their internationally adopted children. Paper Presentation, Sociolingusitics Symposium 16, Limerick, Ireland.
King, K. A. & Fogle, L. (2005, March). Raising bilingual children: Parent ideologies and strategies. Fifth International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB5), Barcelona, Spain.
Fogle, L. (2004, March). The role of native English-speaking teachers in Russia. Paper Presentation, The Graduate Student Forum at the Annual TESOL Convention, Long Beach, CA.
Fogle, L. (2002, October). Integrating native English speaking teachers in Russia. Invited Plenary Address, St. Petersburg English Language Teachers Association (SPELTA), St. Petersburg, Russia.
Blaisdell, D. & Fogle, L. (2002, March). Lexical overextensions in child language acquisition. Paper Presentation, American University Graduate Student Research Forum, Washington, DC.
Publications:
Fogle, L. W. (under review). Repetition in collaborative discourse: Parent-child interaction with international adoptees. In J. Philp, R. Oliver, & A. Mackey (Eds.). Child’s play? Second language acquisition and the younger learner. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Fogle, L. W. (2007). Review of M. Cruz-Ferreira (2006). Three is a crowd? Acquiring Portuguese in a multilingual environment. Language and Education, 21(2).
King, K. A. & Fogle, L. (2006). Bilingual parenting as good parenting: Parents’ perspectives on family language policy for additive bilingualism. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 9(6), 695-712.
King, K. A. & Fogle, L. (2006). Raising bilingual children: Common parental concerns and current research. CAL Digest. Center for Applied Linguistics.
Concentration: General linguistics (Theoretical/Sociolinguistics)
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Presentations:
“Treatment Of Metaphor Comprehension Impairment Subsequent To Right Hemisphere Damage” (with Kristine Lundgren and Hiram Brownell), poster at the ASHA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, November 2004
“Deontic and Epistemic Modal Expression: Theory & Acquisition in English & Spanish”, paper at the Second Lisbon Meeting on Language Acquisition, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2004
Concentration: Applied Linguistics
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Malone, M., Montee, M., & Gallagher, C. (2007, March). What every teacher should know about testing. Workshop presented at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Convention, Seattle, Washington.
Gallagher, C. (2006, November). The development of narrative structure in Spanish SOPI responses. Paper presentation at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Convention, Nashville, Tennessee.
Malone, M., MacGregor, D., Gallagher, C., & Montee, M. (2006, November). Improving assessment literacy: An online guide to test selection. Poster presentation at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Convention, Nashville, Tennessee.
Gallagher, C. & Montee, M. (2006, October). Revisions to CAL’s foreign language test database. Poster presentation at the East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT) conference, Washington, DC.
King, K. & Gallagher, C. (2006, July). Love, identity and evaluative morphology in Andean mother-child conversations. Poster presentation at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, Limerick, Ireland.
Publications:
King, K. & Gallagher, C. (in preparation). Love, diminutives and gender socialization in Andean mother-child narrative conversations. Manuscript of chapter for edited volume in preparation.
Gallagher, C. (in press). [Review of the book Language, space and power: A critical look at bilingual education]. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.
Concentration: Applied Linguistics
Presentations:
The effects of implicit and explicit instruction: A computer-based study. Paper presentation with Gisela Granena at the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Costa Mesa, California (April, 2007).
Recasts in the acquisition of English relative clauses: Positive evidence or negative evidence? Poster presented at the Second Language Research Forum, Teachers College, Columbia University (October, 2005).
Publications:
Mackey, A., & Goo, J. (in press). Interaction in SLA: A research synthesis and meta-analysis. In A. Mackey (Ed.). Conversational interaction in second language acquisition: A series of empirical studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Book Reviews:
Goo, J., & Mackey, A. (in press). Review of "Teaching Young Language Learners." Language and Education.
Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics
Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/jfg27/
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Concentration: M.S. in Applied Linguistics
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Concentration: Sociolinguistics
Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/bsh25
Research Interests: Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics
Blake Howald researches the pragmatic, discourse and cognitive aspects of offender and victim interactions during the commission of violent crimes. He is interested in the ability to statistically model and predict (serial) offender typologies through linguistic features as informed by psychological and geographic profiling. He also researches the role of linguistics in the legal system; in particular, evidence, criminal and civil procedure, and trial practice.
Presentations:
International Association of Forensic Linguists, 8th Biennial Conference, Seattle, Washington Guilty Pleas as Grist for Crime Investigation and Prevention: A Discourse Analytic Case Study of the BTK Killer, July 2007.
International Association of Forensic Linguists, 8th BiennialConference, Seattle, Washington Authorship Attribution under the Rules of Evidence:Empirical Approaches in a Layperson's Legal System, Panel Participant with Hannes Kniffka, Ph.D., Carole E. Chaski, Ph.D., Gerald R. McMenamin, Ph.D. and Tim Grant, Ph.D., July 2007.
Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD Text-Typing Threat Letters, with Carole E. Chaski and Judith Parker, July 2006.
Linguistic Society of America, Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, The Problem of Stylistic Identity Dependency in the American Legal System, January 2006. (withdrawn due to travel)
Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences: Forensic Science: the Nexus of Science and the Law, Washington, D.C. Poster Presentation: The FLAT Characterization Method: Placing Linguistics into the Realm of Forensic Science and Evidentiary Jurisprudence, November 2005.
Michigan Linguistic Society, 35th Annual Conference, East Lansing, MI The Problem of Stylistic Identity Dependency in the American Legal System, October 2005.
International Association of Forensic Linguists, 7th Biennial Conference, Cardiff, Wales Comparative and Non-Comparative Forensic Linguistic Analysis Techniques: Methodologies for Negotiating the Interface of Linguistics and Evidentiary Jurisprudence in American Criminal Procedure, July 2005.
International Linguistics Association, 50th Annual Conference, New York,NY Admission of Forensic Linguistic Analysis Techniques as Evidence in American Criminal Procedure, April 2005.
Publications:
Identifying Authorship by Byte-Level N-Grams: The Source Code Author Profile (SCAP) Method, with Georgia Frantzeskou, Efstathios Stamatatos, Stefanos Gritzalis, and Carole E. Chaski, International Journal of Digital Evidence, Vol. 6, Issue 1, Spring 2007
Comparative and Non-Comparative Forensic Linguistic Analysis Techniques: Methodologies for Negotiating the Interface of Linguistics and Evidentiary Jurisprudence in the American Judiciary, 83 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 285, Issue 3, Spring 2006.
Book Reviews:
Book Review of Roger W. Shuy's "Creating Language Crimes: How Law Enforcement Uses (and Misuses) Language" The International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, Vol. 14, No. 1, Pgs 287-291, January 2007.
Book Review of Bruce D. Sales & Daniel W. Shuman's "Experts in Court: Reconciling Law, Science, and Professional Knowledge" The International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, Vol. 12, No. 2 Pgs 309-315, December 2005.
Concentration: Theoretical
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Concentration: Applied Linguistics
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Concentration: Sociolinguistics
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Concentration: MAT TESOL and Bilingual Education
Concentration: M.A. Language and Communication
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Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics
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Justin Kelly received his M.S. in Theoretical Linguistics with a concentration in Syntax from Georgetown in the Spring of 2006, and he is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program. His thesis is entitled A Minimalist Account of Auxiliary/Main Verb Asymmetries in English. His major areas of interest include the structure of the verb phrase and verb movement; the lexical semantics of number features of nouns and the mapping from syntax to morphology; Control in nominalizations; question formation, topic and focus constructions in Saramaccan, a Surinamese creole; and the syntax and semantics of aspect and negation in English. Aside from his research and his departmental assistantship, Justin works for Second Language Testing, Inc. in Rockville, MD, where he assists with the development of tests of second language proficiency and conducts research on the importance of linguistic simplification and language clarity for English Language Learners in large-scale examinations and alternative assessments.
Presentations:
2007. “A non-NPI use of yet: Effects on aspect and clausal structure.” Paper to be presented at the Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics. Washington, DC.
2007. “Movement phenomenon in Saramaccan: A minimalist perspective.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Anaheim, CA.
2006. “Control in nominalizations: Distributed morphology and the movement theory of control.” Poster presented at the University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL, Arlington, Texas.
2005. “A’-movement in Saramaccan.” Paper presented at the Georgetown Graduate Portuguese and Hyspanic Symposium, Washington, D.C.
2005. “A’-movement in Saramaccan.” Paper presented at the Pennsylvania State University Hispanic Linguistics Colloquium, State College, Pennsylvania.
Publications:
2007. The Movement Theory of Control and the pro-drop Parameter: Some Implications for Language Acquisition. To appear in Georgetown University Working Papers in Linguistics, 2007.
2006. A’-movement in Saramaccan: An Overview. In Georgetown University Luso-Hispanic Linguistics Papers, 2006. http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/spanport/GULLP/index.cfm
2006. A Minimalist Account of Auxiliary Selection and Predication. In Georgetown University Working Papers in Linguistics, 2006.
Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics
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Concentration: MAT in TESL and Bilingual Education
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Concentration: General Linguistics (Bridging Applied and Sociolinguistic Concentrations)
Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/ael34/
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Presentations:
Al-Khalil, M., Atanassova, G., Hama, M., Logan-Terry, A., Mackey, A. and Nakatsukasa, K. (2006, September) Accurate perceptions about corrective feedback in L2 classrooms, presented at the BAAL/IRAAL joint annual conference, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Al-Khalil, M., Atanassova, G., Hama, M., Logan-Terry, A., Mackey, A. and Nakatsukasa, K. (2006, July) Teachers’ intentions and learners’ perceptions about corrective feedback, presented at PacSLRF 2006, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
King, K.A. & Logan-Terry, A. (2006, June). Additive bilingualism through family language policy: Ideologies, strategies and interactional outcomes. American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Montreal, CA
Publications:
Mackey, A., Al-Khalil, M., Atanassova, G., Hama, M., Logan-Terry, A. and Nakatsukasa, K. (in press). Teachers’ Intentions and Learners’ Perceptions about Corrective Feedback in the L2 Classroom. To appear in Innovations in Language Learning and Teaching, 1.
Book Reviews:
Logan-Terry, A. (in press). Review of ‘Raising children bilingually through the 'one parent-one language' approach’ by M. Takeuchi. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.
Concentration: Sociolinguistics
Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/jl297/
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Jia Jackie Lou is intrigued by language as a social semiotic process and its interactions with other social processes. That’s why you’ll find several “and”s in the following list of her interests:
Language, discourse and place; language, discourse and technology; Chinese sociolinguistics; social semiotics; and Chinatowns.
Aside from her ongoing interest in exploring the playful and creative dimensions of online Chinese discourses, she is currently working on a project to investigate, from multiple angles, the linguistic construction of Chinatown in Washington, DC.
Presentations:
Lou, Jia. 2007. The English Morpheme “-ing” as Discourse Marker in Online Chinese Text: A Corpus-Based Sociolinguistic Analysis. Paper read at 10th International Pragmatics Conference, at Göteborg, Sweden.
Lou, Jia. 2007. The Implications of technology for understanding language policy and practice: How Pinyin romanization helped China in the age of the multilingual Internet. Paper read at GLS07: Language and Globalization: Policy, Education, and Media, at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
Lou, Jia. 2005. The old and new faces of Chinatown: A geosemiotic analysis of Chinatowns' shop signs in Washington, DC and Boston. Paper read at Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 3, at Washington, DC.
Lou, Jia. 2005. From English morpheme to symbol of Chinese netizenship: Exploring -ing in Chinese blogs. Paper read at NWAV 34, October 22, at New York University, New York.
Lou, Jia. 2005. Connecting the online and the offline: A preliminary study of display names in computer-mediated interactions. Poster presented at Language and Global Communication Conference, July 7, at Cardiff University, Wales.
Lou, Jia. 2005. The presentation of self through online display names: A preliminary study on identity construction in computer-mediated interactions. Paper read at GLS05: The language and identity tapestry: Linguistic re/presentation of identities in soical interaction, February 18-20, 2005, at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
Publications:
Lou, Jia. To appear. Revitalizing Chinatown into a Heterotopia: A Geosemiotic Analysis of Shop Signs in Washington, DC's Chinatown. Space and culture 10 (2).
Website: www.nerdvana.com/~maggie/
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Ronkin, Maggie. 2006. "Interrogating Power Upside Down: Literal and Hypothetical Worlds in Narration". Language and Linguistics in South Asia: Selected Papers from SALA 24 (working title). Kamal K. Sridhar and Shakaripur N. Sridhar, eds. New Delhi: Manohar Publications.
Ronkin, Maggie. 2004. "Resistance (and Agency) in a Lahori Domestic Worker's Narrative". In William Randall, Delores Furlong, and Tanya Poitras, eds. Narrative Matters 2004 Conference Proceedings. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Narrative Matters Conference Planning Committee.
Ronkin, Maggie and Helen E. Karn. 1999. "Mock Ebonics: Linguistic Racism in Parodies of Ebonics on the Internet". Journal of Sociolinguistics 3.3. 360-380.
Alatis, James E., Carolyn Straehle, and Maggie Ronkin, eds. 1997. Aspects of Sociolinguistics in Greece. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 126. Joshua Fishman, general editor. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Alatis, James E., Carolyn Straehle, Maggie Ronkin, and Brent Gallenberger, eds. 1996. Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation: Current Trends and Future Prospects. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1996. Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press.
Also co-editor of the 1995 GURT Proceedings.
Book Reviews:
2007. Book Review: Chatterjee, Indrani and Richard M. Eaton. eds. 2006. Slavery and South Asian History. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. To appear in The Journal of Asian Studies.
2007. Book Review: Ring, Laura A. 2006. Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. To appear in The Journal of Asian Studies.
2006. Book Review: Bhatia, Nandi. 2004. Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance: Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. The Journal of Asian Studies 65.3.
2005. Book Review: Mukherjee, Arun Prabha, translator. 2003. Joothan: A Dalit's Life by Omprakash Valmiki (original in Hindi). New York: Columbia University Press. The Journal of Asian Studies 64.2. 504-505.
2004. Book Review: Tarlo, Emma. 2003. Unsettling Memories: Narratives of the Emergency in Delhi. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. The Journal of Asian Studies 63.4. 1184-1185.
2002. Book Review: Wortham, Stanton. 2001. Narratives in Action: A Strategy for Research and Analysis (Counseling and Development Series). New York: Columbia University Teachers College Press, Columbia University. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6.4. 615-618.
1997. Book Notice: Singh, Rajendra, Probal Dasgupta, and Jayant K. Lele, eds. 1995. Explorations in Indian Sociolinguistics (Language and Development - Volume 2, Udaya Narayna Singh and Probal Dasgupta, series editors). New Delhi: Sage Publications Ltd. Language 74.3. 902-3.
Concentration: Sociolinguistics
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Publications:
"Unity through language? The language policies of Seeds of Peace." Paper to be presented at the conference of the Georgetown Linguistics Society (GLS), Georgetown University, March 30-April 1, 2007.
Concentrations: Theoretical Linguistics & Applied Linguistics
Website: www.dominikrus.com
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Presentations:
Bridging linguistic and neurocognitive approaches to the acquisition of morphosyntax in healthy-developing children and children with Specific Language Impairment. Plenary talk delivered at SHAV, Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia 49th annual conference. Richmond, Virginia; March 2007
The acquisition of tense and agreement at the interfaces. Talk presented at the Biolinguistic Investigations. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; February 2007
The development of language. Invited workshop given at KAPLAN, Edutech, Inc. Panama City, Panama; November 2006
The acquisition of tense and agreement in early grammars and early root nonfinites (in child Slovenian) revisited. Talk presented at the 31st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston University, Boston, MA; November 2006
The functional structure of imperative phrase markers: Evidence from adult and child Slovenian imperatives. Talk presented at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL)XV. University of Toronto, Canada; May 2006
Biology meets statistics: Towards a variational model of morphosyntactic learnability; Talk presented at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; March 2006
Early root nonfinites and the acquisition of finiteness in child grammar: Evidence from early child Slovenian. Talk presented at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) XIV. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; May 2005
Publications:
Rus, D. to appear. The acquisition of tense and agreement in early grammars and early root nonfinites (in child Slovenian) revisited. To appear in BUCLD31: Proceedings of the 31st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Rus, D. to appear. The functional structure of imperative phrase markers: Evidence from adult and child Slovenian imperatives. To appear in Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) XV: the Toronto Meeting. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications.
Rus, D. 2006. What momma still had to teach You: Towards a variational model of morphosyntactic learnability. To appear in Georgetown Working Papers in Theoretical Linguistics. Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington DC.
Rus, D. 2006. Early root nonfinites and the acquisition of finiteness in child grammar: Evidence from early child Slovenian. To appear in Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL)XIV: the Princeton Meeting. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavica Publications.
Rus, D. & P. Chandra. 2006. Child language imperatives: Root infinitive analogues? To appear in Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA): the Siena Meeting. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Concentration: Applied Linguistics
Presentations:
Reactivity of concurrent think-alouds in synchronous computer-mediated L2 interaction. Poster presented with Bo-Ram Suh at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Montreal, Canada (June, 2006).
Teachers’ attitudes and beliefs about student languages and high-stakes standardized testing. Paper presented with Amy Pogoriler at the East Coast Organization of Language Testers Conference, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (October, 2005).
Textually enhanced recasts in synchronous CMC: Awareness and L2 development. Paper presented with Bo-Ram Suh at the Second Language Research Forum, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York (October, 2005).
Levels of awareness and L3 learning: A think-aloud protocol analysis. Paper presented with Amy Pogoriler (part of The Latin Project symposium) at the Second Language Research Forum, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York (October, 2005).
Second language vocabulary instruction: How does it influence learner-learner interactions? Paper presented with Rebecca Adams at the Second Language Research Forum, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA (October, 2004).
Reformulation, noticing, and L2 writing. Paper presented with Charlene Polio at the Second Language Research Forum, Toronto, Canada (October, 2002)
Publications:
Sachs, R. (in preparation). Awareness constraints on the effectiveness of L2 corrective feedback. Georgetown University Working Papers in Linguistics.
Sachs, R. & Suh, B-R. (in press). Textually enhanced recasts, learner awareness, and L2 outcomes in synchronous computer-mediated interaction. In A. Mackey (Ed.), Conversational interaction in second language acquisition: A collection of empirical studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sachs, R. & Polio, C. (2007). Learners’ uses of two types of written feedback on an L2 writing revision task. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 29(1), 67-100.
Book Reviews:
Mackey, A. & Sachs, R. (2005). Review of The Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Language and Education, 19(4), 355-357.
Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics
Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/jps74/
Concentration: Sociolinguistics
Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/jms236/
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Presentations:
2007. Tracing the Intertextual Origins of Public Opinion: The 1996 Oakland Ebonics Controversy in The New York Times. Paper presented at AAAL, Costa Mesa, CA.
2005. AAVE Existential Variation and Change in Apparent Time: A Preliminary Investigation in Washington, DC. Paper presented at NWAV 34, New York University.
2005. Constructed Dialogue, Constructed Self: Identity in Narrative. Paper presented at GLS Language and Tapestry Conference, Georgetown University.
Concentration: M.S. Applied Linguistics
Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/mcs59/
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Mark Shea is an M.S. student in the Applied Linguistics concentration. His primary interest is in Second Language Acquisition and the effects of different types of input and feedback on L2 development. He is also interested in Lexical Semantics, Syntax, Cognitive Science, and Slavic Languages (Czech and Russian).
Concentration: Applied Ph.D.
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Concentration: Sociolinguistics
Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/bks5
Research Interests: Language attitudes and ideology, discourse analysis, interaction, language and culture, sociolinguistic variation, language policy, endangered languages
My dissertation (in progress) investigates the strategic use and interactional functions of dialectal Austrian German in conversation. It comprises three parts:
The integration of different approaches and methodologies (language attitude study, perceptual analysis, discourse analysis, variation analysis) allows for a close tracing of the contextualization processes by which Austrian speakers strategically exploit commonly shared social meanings (stereotypes) associated with and invoked by dialect use to elicit desired listener responses and create certain communicative effects and outcomes in interaction (for example, antagonistic stances and alignments).
Presentations:
Investigating Listeners' Perception of Austrian Standard-Dialect Shifts as a Basis for Discourse Analysis. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference, Costa Mesa, California, April 21-24, 2007.
Austrian language attitudes and language use: Exploring intertextual links. Paper to be presented at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics (FLL) Graduate Colloquium, March 15th, 2007. (Invited presentation).
On the Strategic Use of Dialect in Austrian TV Political Discussions. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Anaheim, California, January 4-7, 2007.
Investigating the Dialogic Relationship of Language Attitudes and Speaker Design. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 35, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, November 9-12, 2006.
Interactional Functions of Standard-Dialect Switching in Austrian TV Political Discussions. Paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, Limerick, Ireland, July 6-8, 2006.
The Joint Construction of Friendship. Paper presented at 'The Language and Identity Tapestry' conference of the Georgetown Linguistics Society, Georgetown University, February 18-20, 2005.
Dialect Death by Concentration: Glide-Fronted /aU/ in Smith Island Adolescent Speech. Paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 15, Newcastle, UK, April 1-4, 2004
Publications:
Dialect Death by Concentration: Glide-Fronted /aw/ in Smith Island Adolescent Speech. eVox (Georgetown University graduate student journal in linguistics) Vol 1, Forthcoming.
Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties: Defining, Documenting and Developing. Selected papers from the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2006. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Forthcoming. (Co-edited with Kendall King, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Lyn Fogle, Jia Jackie Lou).
Language News in Review: UNESCO and the Quest for Cultural Diversity. Language Policy 5. 209-218. 2006.
'Y'all Come Back Now, Y'Hear!?' - Language Attitudes in the United States towards Southern American English. VIEWS (VIenna English Working paperS) 10/2. 56-68. 2001.
'The Premonition' by Joyce Carol Oates. Published online in collaboration with the University of San Franciso, CA. 1998.
Concentration: Sociolinguistics
Research Interests:
Presentations:
"Constructing identities in zine life-writing: A granola mother in The East Village Inky" AAAL Montreal, June 17-20, 2006
"Redoing small stories in written narratives: A mother's lice story in her memoir and personal zine" Sociolinguistics Symposium 16 Limerick, July 6-8, 2006
"Magazine text as dialogue: The case of BUST magazine" IADA Chicago, IL, March 30-April 3, 2004
Publications:
(2003) "Emerging femininities: An analysis of an alternative women's magazine" Working Papers in Linguistics (2), Northeastern Illinois University
Concentration: Applied Linguistics Ph.D.
Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/brs9/
Presentations:
Suh, B-R. (April, 2007). Output, learner awareness and L2 development. Paper to be presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Costa Mesa, CA.
Suh, B-R. (October, 2006). Effectiveness of textual input enhancement: A quantitative meta-analysis. Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Song, M-J., & Suh, B-R. (August, 2006). The effects of output task types on noticing and learning of the English past hypothetical conditional. Paper presented at the 2006 Asia Teaching English as a Foreign Language International Conference, Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Sachs, R., & Suh, B-R. (June, 2006). Reactivity of concurrent think-alouds in synchronous computer-mediated L2 interaction. Poster presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Leow, R., Cerezo C. L., & Suh, B-R. (October, 2005). Frequency of input, task complexity, and L2 development: A computerized study. Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, NY.
Sachs, R., & Suh, B-R. (October, 2005). Textually enhanced recasts in synchronous CMC: Awareness and L2 development. Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, NY.
Suh, B-R. (August, 2005). Frequency of input exposure, task complexity and L2 development: A computer-based study. Paper presented at the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Conference, New York City, NY.
Song, M-J., & Suh, B-R. (July, 2005). The effects of output task types and input enhancement on noticing and learning of the English past hypothetical conditional. Paper presented at the International Applied Linguistics Association Conference, Madison, WI.
Publications:
Sachs, R. & Suh, B-R. (in press). Textually enhanced recasts, learner awareness, and L2 outcomes in synchronous computer-mediated interaction. In A. Mackey (Ed.), Conversational interaction in second language acquisition: A collection of empirical studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Suh, B-R. (2005). Los efectos de tareas de producción en la adquisición de los pasados españoles: pretérito imperfecto y pretérito indefinido. Biblioteca virtual redELE, número 4.
Concentration: Sociolinguistics
Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/amt23/
Research Interests:
Presentations:
Investigating Language in Performance. Panel to be presented at International Pragmatics Association Conference (IPrA.) July 8-13, 2007. Göteborg, Sweden.
Oh-prefacing in quotatives: implications for speaker stance, alignment, and style. To be presented at Linguistic Society of America Conference (LSA). January 4-7, 2007. Anaheim, California.
Framing Performance: Style and the Construction of Identity in Improv. Presented at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference (NWAV 35). November 9-12, 2006.
Improvised performances and the linguistic (re)production of cultural knowledge. Workshop on dialects, standards, and public performance: Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspectives. Workshop organizer: Natalie Schilling-Estes. Discussant: Nikolas Coupland. Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS16). July -8, 2006. Limerick, Ireland.
Intertextuality and the production of cultural meaning in improv performances. Presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference (AAAL). June 17-20, 2006. Montreal, Canada.
Publications:
2003. Trester, Anna Marie. Bienvenidos a Costa Rica, la tierra de la pura vida: A study of the expression "pura vida" in the Spanish of Costa Rica. Selected Proceedings of the First Conference on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Lofti Sayahi, Ed. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. 61-68.
2003. Laufenberg, George and Anna Marie Trester. Along the spectrum of dissent. Visual Communication. London: SAGE and Publications. 2 (3) 331-340.
Concentration: Sociolinguistics
Research Interests:
Presentations:
"The Stateless Encounter the State: Dimensions of Marginality on the Thai-Lao Border" Presented at Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, March 22-25 2007.
"Discursive Competence and the Micropolitics of Empowerment in Rural
Thailand" Presented at NIDA conference 'การ
ประชุมวิชาการรัฐประศาสน
ศาสตร์ระดับประเทศ
ครั้งที่๑ รัฐประศาสน
ศาสตร์กับการเสริมสร้าง
พลังประชาชน'. Bangkok, Thailand, February 7, 2007
"Ethnographic Notes on Statelessness in Isan" Presented at Chiang Mai University (RCSD) Conference 'Critical Transitions in the Mekong Region' Chiang Mai, Thailand January 30, 2007.
"Formal Discourse, Rural Identity, and Social Power in Northeastern Thailand" Presented at Ramkhamhaeng University Faculty of Political Science Conference 'Freedom, Power, Ethics, and Politics' 'การ ประชุมวิชาการรัฐศาสตร์
และรัฐประศาสนศาสตร์แห่ง
ชาติ ครั้งที่๗ เสรีภาพ
อำนาจ จริยธรรม กับ
การเมืองไทย' Bangkok, Thailand November 7, 2006.
"Formal Discourse and Social Power in Rural Thailand" Presented at American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 2005.
"National Mythos, Historical Narrative, and a Swift Kick in the Head: Muay Thai Boxing and the Celebration of Thai Masculinity" Presented at Ninth International Conference on Thai Studies, DeKalb IL, April 2005.
Publications:
Vail, Peter, "Thailand’s Khmer as ‘Invisible Minority’: Language, Ethnicity, and Cultural Politics in Northeastern Thailand" forthcoming in Asian Ethnicity 8:2 (2007)
Vail, Peter. "A Systemic Functional Approach to Codeswitching in Northeastern Thailand" forthcoming in Linguistics and the Human Sciences 2:1 (2007)
Vail, Peter. "Can a Language of a Million Speakers Be Endangered?: Language Shift and Apathy among Northern Khmer Speakers in Thailand" International Journal of the Sociology of Language 178: 135-147 (2006)
การสลับภาษา วาทกรรม และ อัตลักษณ์ในฐานะเครื่อง
มือโน้มน้าวเชิง
วาทศิลป์: การสร้างการ
กระทำทางการเมืองท้อง
ถิ่นในภาคตะวันออกเฉียง
เหนือของไทย in กฤษดาวรรณ
หงศ์ลดารมภ์และจันทิมา
เอียมานนท์ (บรรณาธิการ).
2548. มองสังคมผ่านวาทกรรม.
กรุงเทพฯ: สำนักพิมพ์
จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย.
"Codeswitching, Discourse and Identity as Tools for Rhetorical Persuasion: The Construction of Local Political Action in Northeastern Thailand" in: Krisadawan Hongladarom and Jantima Eamanondh, eds. Viewing Society Through Discourse Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press (2006 [2549])
Vail, Peter. "Making the Mundane Sacred through Technology: Mediating Identity, Ecology, and Commodity Fetishism" (2004) Visual Communication 3:2 129-144.
Concentration: M.S. Applied Linguistics
Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/smv27
Research Interests:
Concentration: Computational Linguistics
Concentration: MAT TESOL
Concentration: Applied Linguistics
Research Interests:
In addition to being a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Linguistics, Ms. Weger-Guntharp teaches English as a world language instructor at Georgetown. Her research interests include individual differences and SLA, identity construction in the adult learner, and teacher training. Currently she is writing her dissertation on the motivational and contextual variables that impact language learners’ attitudes in language classrooms. During her five years at Georgetown she has published several articles and presented her research at numerous national conferences. Her service experience includes coordinating the yearly Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics (GURT 2005) with Dr. Heidi Byrnes and assisting Georgetown’s Office of International Programs on their Title VI National Study on Assessment of Student Learning Abroad. She holds an MAT in TESOL and Bilingual Education from Georgetown and a MA in Education from The University of Oklahoma.
Publications:
Weger-Guntharp, H.D. (in press). The affective needs of limited proficiency heritage language learners: Perspectives from a Chinese foreign language classroom. In K. Kondo-Brown & J.D. Brown (eds.), Teaching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean heritage students: Curriculum, needs, materials, and assessment. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Weger-Guntharp, H.D. (2007, April). Motivation: Revisiting and revising a language learning reality. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Costa Mesa, CA.
Byrnes, H., Weger-Guntharp, H.D., & Sprang, K. (eds.) (2006). Educating for advanced foreign language capacities. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Winke, P. & H.D. Weger-Guntharp (2006, April). Why U.S. college students are learning Arabic: A motivation study. National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL), Madison, WI.
Weger-Guntharp, H.D. (2006). Developing a Chinese heritage language learner classroom identity profile, Heritage Language Journal.
Winke, P. & H.D. Weger-Guntharp (2006). Why students in the U.S. are learning Arabic: A study of motivation at the college-level. Journal of National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 3, 7-33.
Weger-Guntharp, H.D. (2005, October). L2 motivation and classroom attitudes: Stretching the motivation paradigm. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Colombia Teachers College, New York City, NY.
Weger-Guntharp, H. D. (2005, February). Learner identity in the L2 classroom. Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Weger-Guntharp, H. D. (2004, October). Developing a Chinese heritage language learner classroom identity profile. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Pennsylvania State College, State College, PA.
Weger-Guntharp, H. D. (2004, May). Investigating heritage-speaker status, motivation, and classroom identity. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Portland, OR.
Weger-Guntharp, H. D. (2002, September). Social identity: Its relationship to communication and language acquisition. American Communication Association (ACA), Washington, D.C.
Book Reviews:
Weger-Guntharp, H.D. (2003, June). Review of ‘Interactions 1: Reading’ by E. Kirn & P. Hartman. TESL-EJ, 7, Article R-2. (Retrieved October 12, 2004, from http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej25/r2.html)
Concentration: General PhD (Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics)
Research Interests: Language variation, academic discourse, and writing instruction
Kathleen Williams is specifically interested in Language Variation among speakers of American dialects and English-based creoles. She also does work in the area of academic writing instruction for speakers of English as a Second Dialect. Currently, she is engaged in a cross-generational exploration of the speech of Native American Lumbee living in Baltimore, MD. Her study focuses specifically on morphosyntactic features of Lumbee Vernacular English documented in Robeson County, North Carolina, the home of the Lumbee Tribe.
Presentations:
Annual TESOL Convention, Tampa, Florida, Spring 2006. Innovative instruction for World English speakers. (Co-presenter with Dr. Christa de Kleine, The College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD.)
The Fourth Biennial International Conference on Language Teacher Education, Center for Applied Research in Language Acquisition, Spring 2005. Preparing to teach World English speakers in the ESL classroom. (Co-presenter with Dr. Christa de Kleine, The College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD.)
Concentration: Applied (M.S.)
Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/jll49/
Research interests:
Presentations:
"Chinese school attendance and its effect on language maintenance attitudes: An exploratory case study in two Minnesota schools." Paper presented at Cultural Diversity and Language Education Conference, University of Hawai'i Manoa, Sept 17-19, 2004.
Concentration: Sociolinguistics