Eight students defend dissertations in Spring 2026

Announcements for dissertation defenses in Spring 2026

 

Hoʻomaikaʻi to our Spring and Summer 2026 Ph.D. recipients! Eight students successfully defended their dissertations this spring. We are eager to see what comes next for each of you!

• Blaine Billings:  Documentary Lexicography:  A Case Study of Building a Nasal Dictionary (Advisor:  Bradley McDonnell)
• Emma Breslow:  Diversity in a Diasporic Language:   Sociolinguist Variation in Minority Yiddish Contexts (Andrew Cheng)
• Noelani Kong-Johnson:  Managing Competition in Language:  Neurodevelopment of Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution in Bilinguals and Monolinguals (Kamil Deen)
• Josiah Murphy:  Woleaian Language Embodied in Watercraft at Home and Abroad (Gary Holton)
• Sebi Ohara-Saft:  Experimental Approaches to Assessing Vitality for Endangered Languages:  The Case of Jejueo (William O'Grady)
• Henry Osborne:  A Spatial Grammar of Kubulau Fijian (Gary Holton)
• Anu Reddy:  Argument Identification in Child and Heritage Child Marathi (Kamil Deen)
• Carolyn Siegman:  Sound Change Mechanisms in Heritage Korean Spoken in Honolulu (Shelece Easterday)