| Year | Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs | Current Position/Title |
| 2012 | Joseph Tyler | Discourse Prosody in Production and Perception | Ezra Keshet | Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Qatar University |
| 2012 | Terrence Szymanski | Morphological Inference from Bitext for Resource-Poor Languages | Steve Abney | |
| 2012 | Xinting Zhang | A Comparison of Cue-Weighting in the Perception of Prosodic Phrase | Andries W. Coetzee and San Duanmu | |
| 2011 | Kevin McGowan | Listener Expectations and the Processing of Foreign-Accented Speech | Steve Abney, Patrice Beddor | Lecturer of Linguistics at Rice University |
| 2011 | Miyeon Ahn | Phonetics and Phonology Interplay in Loanword Adaptation: English Alveolar Fricative into Korean | Andries W. Coetzee | |
| 2011 | Lauren Marie Squires | Sociolinguistic Priming and the Perception of Agreement Variation: Testing Predictions of Exemplar-Theoretic Grammar | Julie Boland and Robin Queen | Assistant Professor, Department of English, the Ohio State University |
| 2011 | Susan Lin | Production and Perception of Prosodically Varying Inter-Gestural Timing in American English Laterals | Patrice Beddor | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Macquarie University |
| 2011 | Brook Hefright | Language Contact as Bilingual Contrast among Bai Language Users in Jianchuan County | Robin Queen | Associate Research Scientist at the University of Maryland |
| 2010 | Sai Samant | Arab American Youth and Sound Change in Southeastern Michigan | Robin Queen | |
| 2010 | Anna M. Babel | Contact and Context in Valley Spanish | Sarah G. Thomason and Bruce Mannheim | Assistant Professor in the Hispanic Linguistics program in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Ohio State University |
| 2010 | Yu-Fen Hsieh | Sentence Processing in Chinese and Chinese-English Bilinguals: Syntax-Semantics Interaction During Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution | Julie Boland | Head of Research at the Singapore Centre for Chinese Language at Nanyang Technological University |
| 2010 | Konstantia (Dina) Kapetangianni | The Minimalist Syntax of Control in Greek | Samuel D. Epstein and Acrisio Pires | |
| 2010 | Miki Obata | Root, Successive-Cyclic and Feature-Splitting Internal Merge: Implications for Feature-Inheritance and Transfer | Samuel D. Epstein and Noam Chomsky | Associate Professor in the Linguistics Program at Mie University |
| 2010 | Christopher V. Odato | Children's Development of Knowledge and Beliefs about Englishlike(s) | Deborah Keller-Cohen | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, Lawrence University |
| 2010 | Damon A. Tutunjian | Re-Examining Facilitation from Coordinated Verb Phrases | Julie Boland | Postdoctoral Fellow at Lund University |
| 2009 | Li Yang | Re-evaluating and Exploring the Contributions of Constituency Grammar to Semantic Role Labeling | Steven Abney | Analyst, Janya: Multilingual Semantic Analysis Solutions |
| 2008 | Hoiying (Katherine) Chen | Linguistic Practices and Ideologies of Cantonese-English Bilinguals in Hong Kong | Judith T. Irvine and Sarah G. Thomason | Assistant Professor, School of English, The University of Hong Kong |
| 2008 | Lisa Marie Del Torto | Ci Arrangiamo: The Realities of Shift-Maintenance Negotiation in an Italian-Canadian Community | Robin Queen | Instructor at Northeastern Illinois University and instructor in the Writing Program at Northwestern University |
| 2008 | Gerardo Fernandez-Salguiero | Aspects of the Syntax of (TP-) Coordination, Across-the Board Extraction, and Parasitic Gaps | Samuel D. Epstein and Acrisio Pires | Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, National Taiwan normal University |
| 2008 | Vera V. Irwin | More than just Ethnic. Negotiation of Ethnicity through Language among Russian German Re-settlers and Jewish Refugees from the Former Soviet Union in Germany | Robin Queen | Lecturer in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Research Assistant in the English Language institute at the University of Michigan |
| 2007 | Nancy Perez | A Proto-Matlatzinkan Reconstruction | Sarah G. Thomason | |
| 2007 | Rizwan Ahmad | Shifting Dunes: Changing Meanings of Urdu in India | Robin Queen | Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics, Department of English Literature & Linguistics, Qatar University |
| 2007 | Christopher Becker | Clausal and Nominal Agreement in Russian: A Unified Approach | Acrisio Pires | Lecturer, Wayne State University |
| 2007 | Robert Felty | Effects in Spoken Word Recognition of English and German by Native and Non-native Listeners | Patrice Beddor and Jose Benki | Speech Scientist, Nuance Communications |
| 2007 | Catherine Fortin | Indonesian Sluicing and Verb Phrase Ellipsis: Description and Explanation in a Minimalist Framework | Samuel Epstein | Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Carleton College |
| 2007 | Michael Marlo | The Verbal Tonology of Lumarachi and Lunyala: Two Dialects of Luluyia (Bantu, J. 30, Kenya) | Andries Coetzee | Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Missouri |
| 2007 | Wilfredo Valentin-Marquez | Doing being boricua: Perceptions of national identity and the sociolinguistic distribution of liquid variables in Puerto Rican Spanish | Lesley Milroy and Teresa L. Satterfield | Assistant Professor of Spanish, Millersville University |
| 2007 | Yang Ye | Automatic Tense and Aspect Translation between Chinese and English | Steven Abney | Senior Linguist, Cataphora (software firm) |
| 2006 | Chandan Narayan | Non-Native Speech Perception in Infancy and Adulthood: Perceptual Salience and a New Pattern of Development | Patrice Beddor and Janet F. Werker | Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Toronto, Scarborough |
| 2006 | Jennifer Nguyen | The Changing Social and Linguistic Orientation of the African American Middle Class | Lesley Milroy and Robin Queen | Associate Director, 2013 Linguistic Institute |
| 2006 | Hamid Ouali | Unifying Agreement Relations: A Minimalist Analysis of Berber | Samuel Epstein and Acrisio Pires | Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin |
| 2006 | Nicholas Pharris | Winuunsi Tm Talapaas: A Grammar of the Molalla Language | Sarah Thomason | |
| 2006 | Mark Sicoli | Tono: A Linguistic Ethnography of Tone and Voice in a Zapotec Region | Sally Thomason and Bruce Mannheim | Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University |
| 2006 | Andrea Stiasny | Acquisition of Clitics in Croatian and Spanish and its Implications for Syntactic Theory | Acrisio Pires | Lecturer in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan |
| 2006 | Ashley Williams | Bilingualism and the Construction of Ethnic Identity among Chinese Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area | Lesley Milroy | Lecturer, American Studies and Anthropology |
| 2005 | Hee Soo Kim | Causatives, Passives and Their Ambiguities in Korean, Japanese, and English | Acrisio Pires and Marilyn Shatz | |
| 2005 | Aman Kumar | Aspects of Hindi Syllable Structure | San Duanmu | |
| 2005 | Chutamanee Onsuwan | Temporal relations Between Consonants and Vowels in Thai Syllables | Patrice Beddor, chair | Instructor in Department of Linguistics, Thammasat University |
| 2005 | Erik Schleef | Navigating Joint Activities in English and German Academic Discourse: Form, Function, and Sociolinguistics Distribution of Discourse Makers and Question Tags | Robin Queen | Lecturer (Assoc. Prof.) in English Sociolinguistics, University of Manchester |
| 2004 | Evanthia Diakoumakou | Coarticulatory vowel nasalization in Modern Greek | Patrice Beddor | |
| 2004 | Jeffrey Doan | The degradation of ethos in adversarial contexts | Jeffrey Heath | |
| 2004 | Dushyanthi Mendis | A corpus-based study of the use and identification of metaphor in academic speech | John Swales | On Faculty in Department of English at University of Colombo |
| 2003 | Bridget Anderson | An acoustic study of Southeastern Michigan Appalachian and African American southern migrant vowel systems | Lesley Milroy | Associate Professor, Linguistics, Old Dominion University |
| 2003 | Mark Arehart | Noun compound semantics: linguistic and general-purpose reasoning | Richmond Thomason, chair | |
| 2003 | Elizabeth Axelson | A longitudinal study of intercultural discourse in a master's thesis project group | John Swales | Lecturer in English, ELI, University of Michigan |
| 2003 | Annemarie Toebosch | Gender-animacy and the morpho-syntax of object clitics in Dutch | Samuel Epstein and Christina Tortora | Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Flint |
| 2002 | Dacia Dressen (Now Dressen-Hammouda) | Accounting for fieldwork in three areas of modern geology: a situated analysis of textual silence and salience | John Swales | Research Faculty, Universite Blaise Pascal |
| 2002 | Andrew Freeman | In search of a koin & eacute; in San & lsquo;a & rsquo; | Jeffrey Heath and Raji Rammuny | Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Mclean |
| 2002 | Rose Letsholo | Syntactic domains in Ikalanga | Samuel Epstein | Assistant Professor, University of Botswana |
| 2001 | Joseph Pimentel | Sociolinguistic reflections of privatization and globalization: the Arabic of Egyptian newspaper advertisements | John Swales | Dance Caller |
| 2000 | Judith Dyer | Language and identity in a Scottish-English community: a phonological and discoursal analysis | Deborah Keller-Cohen and Lesley Milroy | Lecturer in English, University of Michigan |
| 2000 | Hyo-Young Kim | Flexibility of English stress | San Duanmu | Associate Professor of English, Koomin University, Seoul, Korea |
| 2000 | Mi-Ryoung Kim | Segmental and tonal interations in English and Korean: a phonetic and phonological study | Patrice Beddor and San Duanmu | Chair, Professor of English, Dept of ESL, Korean Cyber University, Seoul |
| 2000 | Stephanie Lindemann | Non-native speaker "incompetence" as a construction of the native listener: attitudes and their relationship to perception and comprehension of Korean-accented English | Patrice Beddor and Lesley Milroy | Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics and ESL, Georgia State Univerisity |
| 2000 | Ivelisse Martinez | The effects of language on children's understanding of agency and causation | Marilyn Shatz | US Deparment of Health and Human Services (2010) |
| 2000 | Ana Ostermann | Reifying and defying sisterhood in discourse: communities of practice at work at an all-female police station and a feminist crisis intervention center in Brazil | Deborah Keller-Cohen | Professor, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos |
| 1999 | Peggy Goetz | A comparison of 3- and 4-year-old English monolinguals, Mandarin monolinguals, and Mandarin-English bilinguals on a series of theory of mind-related tasks | Marilyn Shatz | Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Calvin College |
| 1999 | Yoshimi Miyake | The Japanese "deferential" prefix O: a natural history | Jeffrey Heath | Associate Professor, Akita University |
| 1999 | Alicia Wassink | A sociophonetic analysis of Jamaican vowels | Patrice Beddor and Lesley Milroy | Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Washington |
| 1998 | Didar Akar | Patterns and variations in contemporary written business communications in Turkey: a genre study in four companies | Priscilla Rogers and John Swales | Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Bogazici University |
| 1998 | Dorothy Evans-Romaine (Now Kathleen Evans-Romaine) | Palatalization and coarticulation in Russian | Patrice Beddor | Professor and Director of Critical Language Institute |
| 1998 | James Harnsberger | The perception of non-native nasal contrasts: a cross-linguistic perspective | Patrice Beddor | Assistant Professor in Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Florida |
| 1998 | Sarah Shin | Paibu dollar please!: bilingual Korean American children in New York City | Lesley Milroy | Professor of Education, University of Maryland Baltimore County |
| 1997 | Ummul Ahmad | Scientific research articles in Malay: a situated discourse analysis | John Swales | Associate Professor in Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia |
| 1997 | Matthew Gordon | Urban sound change beyond city limits: the spread of the Northern Cities Shift in Michigan | James Milroy and Lesley Milroy | Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri |
| 1997 | Laura Grande | From "get" to "can": a natural semantic metalanguage study of Chinese de constructions in three pre-modern text samples | William Baxter | |
| 1997 | Rita Simpson | Negotiating identities in Thai Conversation: a sociolinguistic discourse analysis of person-referring expressions | Rosina Lippi-Green and Lesley Milroy |
