CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS

Elaine Abousalh

elainef (at) email.unc.edu

Ian Clayton

iclayton (at) email.unc.edu

M.A., University of Montana (2001); B.A., University of Alaska, Fairbanks (1994).

Ian has been working in the field of experimental phonetics, focusing particularly on preaspiration and other phonetic features of Scottish Gaelic.

Jeff Conn

A.B. Anthropology, Occidental College (1977); Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Classics, UNC-Asheville (2001)

Jeff is a student in the Ph.D. program. His area of interest is historical linguistics, chiefly Indo-European and long-range comparison.

Melissa Damann

damann (at) email.unc.edu

B.S. Human Development, Cornell University (1995)

Lisa Domby

Lisa_Domby (at) med.unc.edu

M.S. Speech and Hearing Sciences, UNC-CH (1993)

Lisa is a first-year student whose primary area of interest is bilingual phonological acquisition.

Melissa Frazier

melfraz (at) email.unc.edu

B.A. Linguistics, University of Cincinnati (2002); M.A. Linguistics, UNC-CH (2006)

Melissa is a fourth year grad student. Her primary field of research is in phonology. She is currently working on her dissertation and teaching ling 101.

Eduardo Hugo Gil

egil (at) email.unc.edu

B.A. Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz (2002)

Eduardo is a third-year student whose general field of interest is syntax.

Susannah Kirby

tofu (at) email.unc.edu

B.A. Psychology, UNC-CH (2001); M.A. Linguistics, UNC-CH (2005)

Susannah is a doctoral student whose primary area of interest is acquisition of syntax. Susannah is currently working on her dissertation project and teaching Ling 101.

Eunsuk Lee

eunsuk (at) unc.edu
Phone: (919) 260-6645

M.A., B.A. Kyungpook National University (Korea)

Yu Li

yuli (at) email.unc.edu

B.A.(2000), M.A.(2002), Beijing University

Jenna Mory

mjenna (at) email.unc.edu

Jenna is a second year masters student. She is beginning her thesis research on early second language acquisition this Fall.

Jenn Renn

jrenn (at) email.unc.edu

B.A. Government & Economics, Cornell University (2001), M.A. Linguistics, UNC-CH (2007)

Jenn is a fourth year doctoral student whose primary interests are language variation and first language acquisition. She is currently working on her dissertation and completing coursework for a minor in Quantitative Psychology. This semester she is teaching Ling 101.

Abby Spears

Maki Takahashi

makitaka (at) email.unc.edu

B.A. Education (K-12, English), Miyagi Univ. of Education, Japan (1989); M.A. Education (English), Miyagi Univ. of Education, Japan (1991); M.A. Linguistics, UNC-CH (2003)

Kara VanDam

kvandam (at) email.unc.edu