- Jack Rechsteiner (BA-MA Linguistics 2023) primarily researched sociophonetic variation in nonbinary speakers. They are currently pursuing a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Xiayimaierdan Abudushalamu (MA Linguistics 2023) wrote a thesis on language choice in Xinjiang comedy.
- Chad Hall is a Linguistics PhD student working on the speech of second generation Lebanese Americans.
- J. Daniel Hasty (PhD Linguistics 2012) worked on production of and attitudes to double modals in Tennesee English.
- Carli Hearn-Willard (MA Linguistics 2020) was a graduate research assistant in the lab.
- Ashley Hesson (PhD Linguistics 2014) worked on stylistic variation in physician-patient interactions.
- Arlo Kaczor (MA Linguistics 2022) worked on a variety of sociolinguistic perception projects, with a special focus on gender and queer identity.
- Alexander Mason (MA Linguistics 2019) worked with Suzanne Wagner, Monica Nesbitt and others on Lansing speech and attitudes toward the Northern Cities Shift. He also conducted research on Latino attitudes toward regional English dialects with Gabriela Alfaraz.
- Morgan Momberg (MA Linguistics 2020) worked on the pragmatic functions and social distribution of adverbial modifier lowkey.
- Monica Nesbitt (PhD Linguistics 2019) worked on phonological change in Michigan English. She was a graduate research assistant in the lab on the IHELP project.
- Monica Obiri-Yeboah (MA Linguistics 2022) was interested in multilingualism and education, primarily in Ghana.
- Jack Rechsteiner (MA Linguistics 2023) wrote a thesis on nonbinary individuals’ sociolinguistically variable speech production and perception.
- Mohammed Ruthan (PhD Linguistics 2020) worked on perceptual dialectology of Jazani Arabic.
- Matt Savage worked with Suzanne Wagner, Monica Nesbitt, and Karthik Durvasula on language attitudes and language change in Michigan.
- Rebecca Senn (MA Linguistics 2020) worked on Ukrainian phonology and English intensifiers.
- Maddie Shellgren
- Sayako Uehara (PhD Linguistics 2019) worked on perception of sociolinguistic outliers in Michigan English. Saya was a graduate research assistant in the lab.
- Chenchen Xu (PhD Linguistics 2020) worked on perceptual phonology and perceptual dialectology of Chinese syllable contraction.
- Xiaomei Wang
- Mingzhe Zheng (PhD Linguistics 2017) worked on the sociolinguistics of vowel production in the English of Chinese Americans in Michigan.
- Caroline Zackerman (BA Linguistics 2024) was a Professorial Assistant to Dr. Betsy Sneller (2021-2022) and the project manager for MI Diaries (2022-2024).
- Alexis Behnke (BA Linguistics 2022). Alexis investigated sociolinguistic variability over the career of MI state senator Mallory Morrow.
- Andrew Fritz
- Nick Beatty
- Laura Blanton (BA Spanish and Linguistics 2013). Laura was involved with several lab projects, including Philadelphia teenage speech and perception of sociolinguistic variation. Laura also attended the NWAV 41 conference in 2012. She wrote her senior thesis on the linguistic construction of hipster identity.
- Danielle Brown
- Travis Coppernoll
- Bailey Doolittle (BA Linguistics 2012). Bailey worked with Suzanne Wagner and Joel Wallenberg on an analysis of verb-second word order in two parallel French and English texts from the 13th and 14th centuries.
- Eva Ellis (BA Linguistics 2011). Eva wrote her senior thesis on gendered perceptions of swearing.
- Katie Fraser (BA Linguistics 2010). Katie was a Professorial Assistant in the lab 2008-2010. Her senior thesis was an ethnographic and quantitative analysis of vowel production by senior citizens in a Lansing neighborhood.
- August Jenkins (BA Psychology and Linguistics 2016). August developed her own project about the expression on fleek, which she examined in a corpus of Twitter data and presented at the MSU Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF) in 2015. August was funded by an MSU CAL-URI grant in 2015-2016 to develop a coding scheme for general extenders. She received the prestigious Michigan State University Featherstone Prize in 2016.
- Newt Kelbley (BA Linguistics 2023). Newt worked as a transcriber and undergraduate research assistant for the MI Diaries project. Funded by a CAL-URI grant, Newt presented a poster on question syntax in the Diaries corpus at MSU UURAF 2023.
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Karthik Kovuru (BA Linguistics and Physiology 2013). Karthik worked on several lab projects with Suzanne Wagner and Ashley Hesson. He wrote his senior thesis on interruptions in doctor-patient consultations.
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Heidi Little (BA Linguistics 2014). With Suzanne Wagner and Ashley Hesson, Heidi completed a study of register variation in the use of general extenders across three corpora (LCS, FISHER, Toronto English Archive), published in the edited volume, Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English. She also worked with Suzanne and Sali Tagliamonte on an analysis of quotatives and intensifiers, and with Suzanne on an outreach project involving a local middle school.
- Lindsay Moore
- Kathryn VerPlanck (BA Linguistics 2014). Kathryn worked for two years as Suzanne Wagner’s professorial assistant. She co-published, with Kali Bybel and Suzanne Wagner, a Methods in Dialectology XIV proceedings paper on general extenders in a small corpus of Philadelphia teenage speech. Kathryn wrote her senior thesis on perceptions of the ‘Iraq’ vowel and speaker political affiliation.
- Marisa Brook Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at MSU.
- Olamide Eniola was a Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant at MSU.
- Happygod Macha was a Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant at MSU.
- Carol Myers-Scotton, MSU emerita professor.
- Elena Sheard was a 2020-2022 Visiting PhD Student from Australia National University.
- Wil Rankinen Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Grand Valley State University, was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at MSU. Wil runs the Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics and Speech Sciences (S4) lab.
- Carmen Ruiz-Sanchez was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at MSU.
- Dennis R. Preston, MSU emeritus professor.
- Irina Zaykovskaya was a 2021-22 Visiting Research Scholar in the Sociolinguistics Lab.