Graduate Students
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Joseph M. Añavesa
- PhD candidate
language acquisition, language documentation
- Dissertation Project: Bisaja - A linguistic description of the Cebuano dialect in Southern Leyte
- jmanavesa@gmail.com
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Friedrich Andres Aquino
- MA student
Paranan language, morphosyntax, syntax-semantics interface, sociolinguistics
- faaquino@up.edu.ph
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Patricia Anne Asuncion
- MA student
linguistic rights, language documentation and revitalization, history of Philippine linguistics
- pyasuncion@up.edu.ph
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Rolien Mark Balisi
- MA student
sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, ethnolinguistics
- rmbalisi1@up.edu.ph
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Naidyl Isis Bautista
- PhD student
Language description, historical linguistics, semantic change, didactics
- ncbautista4@up.edu.ph
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Nathaniell C. Capinpin
- MA student
Tagalog/Filipino linguistics
- nccapinpin@up.edu.ph
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Lance Joshua S. Castro
- MA student
morphophonemics, English linguistics, Kapampangan linguistics
- lscastro1@up.edu.ph
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Emil Isaac R. Conde
- MA student
applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, stylistics, translation studies, grammatical analysis
- erconde@up.edu.ph
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Katherine Culaba
- MA student
cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics
- ksculaba@up.edu.ph
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Nikki De Chavez
- MA student
language development and acquisition, dialectology
- dechavez.nikki@gmail.com