For a complete list of students for whom I have served as either the chair or a member of the PhD dissertation or MA paper committee, check my CV on the front (Home) page.

Current:

Ke Zhang. Doctoral student. kezhang@uwm.edu

Former:

MAs:

Fatima Zohra Beldaha. May 2022. The effects of phonetic training on the novel production of the German consonants [ç] and [x].

Rachel Elizabeth Confair. December 2021. Fricative voicing in Texan and Wisconsin English.

Joshua Harmon. May 2021. The effect of speech production on novel L2 sound training. ESL instructor, Appleton, WI

Eunryoung Cho. May 2021. Fundamental frequency and news topics of newscaster speech. English instructor for children, Korea

Laura Kiskunas. May 2017. Perception of a foreign accent in L2: A study of Arabic and Korean speakers of English. Lab manager, University of Iowa.

Dylan Pearson. May 2016. A survey of indexical bleedthrough from competing speech. Then, he got a PhD degree at the department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Indiana University.

PhDs:

Dong Jin Kim. August 2024. The effects of orienting attention during production training in learning nonnative segmental and prosodic contrasts. Research Associate in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Sujin Oh. May 2024. Individual differences of L1 category precision in L2 speech learning. Postdoctoral researcher, Seoul National University; lecturer, Soongsil University, Sejong University, and Kookmin University

Jieun Lee. May 2022. Individual differences in non-native phonological contrast learning: the role of perceptual sensitivity to sub-phonemic variation in native categories. Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Kansas.

Ruqayyah Ataih Althubyani. December 2021. The effect of shadowing in learning L2 segments: a perspective from phonetic convergence. Faculty member at the department of English Language at Umm Al-Qura University in Saudi Arabia.

Zafer Lababidi. July 2016. The L2 perceptual mapping of Arabic and English consonants by American English learners. Associate Teaching Professor of Arabic at the department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University.

Siriporn Lerdpaisalwong. August 2015. Perception training of Thai learners: American English consonants and vowels. Assistant Professor at the department of Foreign Languages at Kasetsart University in Thailand.