Current Graduate Students
Komeil Ahari
Ph.D. Student (kolahiah@msu.edu)
Research interests: syntax and word order, particularly Persian syntax.
Ben Airola
Ph.D. Student (airolabe@msu.edu)
Links: website
Research interests: (articulatory) phonology, phonetics, and neurolinguistics.
Mofart Ayiega
Ph.D. Student (ayiegamo@msu.edu)
Links: ORCID; Researchgate; Google Scholar
Research interests: morphosyntax, semantics, and pragmatics of Bantu languages, Kiswahili and Ekegusii.
Adam Barnhardt
Ph.D. Student (barnha60@msu.edu)
Links: website; ORCID; Researchgate; Google Scholar
Research interests: sociophonetics/phonology and language change.
Connor Bechler
Xiaoke Bu
Emily Duggan
Yunting Gu
Jiasheng Guo
Ph.D. Student (guojiash@msu.edu)
Research interests: semantics, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics.
John Ryan
Ph.D. Student (ryanjoh9@msu.edu)
Research interests: first language acquisition of syntax and semantics. I am also interested in psycho/neurolinguistics and the study of cognitive science.
Anqi Shao
Ph.D. Student (shaoanqi@msu.edu)
Research interests: articulatory phonetics, phonology, diphthong modelling.
Jason Smith
Ph.D. Student (smit2922@msu.edu)
Links: website
Research interests: comparative syntax, morphology, field linguistics. documentation, and Mande languages.
Hamlin Teng
M.A. Student (tenghua1@msu.edu)
Research interests: sociolinguistics, computational modelling.
Cherilyn Wang
Yaxuan Wang
Ph.D. Student (wangyax3@msu.edu)
Links: website
Research interests: semantics and pragmatics, with a special interest in quantifiers and presupposition and the interaction between the two.
Jingying Xu
Ph.D. Student (xujing21@msu.edu)
Research interests: first language acquisition of syntax and semantics.
Yongqing Ye
Ph.D. Student (yeyongqi@msu.edu)
Research interests: phonetics, speech perception and production.