April 7, 2025 by
Pocholo Umbal
On April 3, 2025, Heather Yawney successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, Phonological and morphological conditions on dorsals in Kazakh: Productivity in production and acceptability. Her dissertation committee comprised of Profs. Nathan Sanders (co-supervisor), Peter Jurgec (co-supervisor), Avery Ozburn (committee member) Samuel Akinbo (internal-external reviewer), Phil Monahan (internal-external reviewer), and Sara Mackenzie (external examiner; Memorial University of Newfoundland).
From all of us in the Department of Linguistics, congratulations Dr. Yawney!