Graduate Students

Linguistics

Current Graduate Students

Komeil Ahari

Ph.D. Student (kolahiah@msu.edu) 

Research interests: syntax and word order, particularly Persian syntax.

Mofart Ayiega

Ph.D. Student (ayiegamo@msu.edu) 

Links: ORCID; Researchgate; Google Scholar

Research interests: morphology and syntax

Adam Barnhardt

Ph.D. Student (barnha60@msu.edu)

Research interests: sociophonetics/phonology and language change.

Savvy Barnes

Ph.D. Student (barne329@msu.edu)

Research interests: TBD

Connor Bechler

PhD Student (bechler4@msu.edu)
 
Research interests: sociolinguistics, language change, computational modeling, computational linguistics, phonetics/phonology interface.

Xiaoke Bu

Ph.D. Student (buxiaoke@msu.edu)
 
Research interests: syntax, acquisition.

Jiasheng Guo 

M.A. Student (guojiash@msu.edu) 

Research interests: semantics, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics.

Millie Hacker

Ph.D. Student (millie.hac@gmail.com)
 
Research interests: TBD

Drake Howard

M.A. Student (howar379@msu.edu)
 
Research interests: Language change, phonetics/phonology, and sociolinguistics.

Annan Kirk

Ph.D. Student (kirkann1@msu.edu)

Research interests: sociolinguistics

Ahmed Mohammed

Ph.D. Student (moham237@msu.edu)

Research interests: syntax, semantics.

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.

Jessica Shepherd

Ph.D. Student (sheph157@msu.edu)

Research interests: sociophonetics.

Hamlin Teng

M.A. Student (tenghua1@msu.edu)

Research interests: language variation and change.

Cherilyn Wang 

Ph.D. Student (wangy176@msu.edu)
 
Research interests: articulatory phonetics and phonology.

Yaxuan Wang

Ph.D. Student (wangyax3@msu.edu) 

Research interests: semantics and pragmatics

Shuyang Wei

Ph.D. Student (weishuya@msu.edu) 

Research interests: TBD

Ellie Xia

Ph.D. Student (xiayili@msu.edu)

Research interests: language documentation and computational modeling.

Jingying Xu

Ph.D. Student (xujing21@msu.edu) 

Research interests: first language acquisition of syntax and semantics.