Scholars Week

Rosie O’Malley-Knudson, “Apples and Oranges: How the syllabic /l/ is vocalized in Harlem dialect”

Dana Gravseth, “Identity and Spanish Heritage Language Variability”

Anuk Centellas and Chloe Maple, “Allophones of Voiceless Fricatives in Catalan”

Ilsa O’Rollins, “Two temporal na’s in Asante Twi”

Ana Marbett and Katie Leiendecker, “Dialectal Variations in Spanish Spirantization”

Ellie Lorenzen, “The Perception of Spanish Accented English by Monolingual English and Bi/multilingual Students Attending Western Washington University”

Alex Williams, “The Russian coda: a sonority-based approach to L2 acquisition”

Livia Lomne-Licastro, Nick Walker, Alexandra Knepp, “Acquisition of L3 Phonology: An Overview”

Hayley Abella and Nicki Wasson “Allophonic Variation of Plosives in Southern Dialect Potawatomi”

Mae Bash, “Mauwake Focus Markers”

Glory Busic, “Internalized Attitudes: African American English Speakers and African American English”

Margo Digiacinto, “Negation in Korean Syntax”

Royce Gibson, “Korean Modality”

Jack MacCleary, “Topic and Focus Phrases in Pite Saami”

Eden McGee, “Warao Determiners and Their Phrase Structure”

Meghan Murphy, “Simplifying the Syntactic Theory of Minimalism”

Ilsa O’Rollins, “Strategies of Disjunction in Ket”

Liam Pedersen, “Language and Identity in the Transgender Community of Tumblr”

Red Sheets, “Inventory of Modal Auxiliaries in Irish”

Thatch Trautmann, “Nominalization in Numu (Northern Paiute)” Co-author/language consultant J.R. Manríquez

Lukas Civan, "Entailment in Asante Twi: A Semantic Analysis of Cooking-related Verbs"

Sylvia Cohen, "Emotion and the Body in Twi"

Meghan Lopez, "To Be In or To Be On: Adpositional variation in Twi"

Madison Peyton, “Language Attitudes & Language Use: The Case of joual in Québec”

Emma Wheaton, "Verb Movement: Evidence from Verb Subject Object Languages"

Jessalyn Campbell, “Hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Morphosyntax​”

Aspen Clark, “Examine I Syntax the Arabic the Modern the Standard: A Look Into Verb Raising, Negation, Definiteness, and Possession"

Jess Costanza, “Let's Go Camping: The Life of Polari, London's Queer Cant”

Leah Robinson and Michelle Nguyen, “Development of Japanese Passives in Relation to Middle Voice: Old Japanese Through the Modern Period (700 AD-Present)”

Jess Costanza, To Nose-exhale or Not to Nose-exhale? What Computers Have to Say about the Phonemic Inventory of Icelandic

Anchal Sharma, Phonemes and Allophones of Mexican Spanish

Chris Beswetherick & Daniel Leach, The Evolution of Spanish Coronal Fricatives

Joey Farrow, The Big Bang Theory: Subordinate Men and The Legibility of Hegemonic Masculinity

Aron Finholt, The Scope of Negation in Romance

Emily Hillman, The Syntax of Guarani

Evelyn Hobbs, A Brief Look at Lushootseed Syntax

Holly Lund, A Case Study in Areal Linguistics: German and Estonian’s Forgotten Affair

Mike Jones & Jazzy Edwards, A House of Cards

Mack Wright, Stereotypes, Ageism, and Millennials: Generation Discourse within an Abercrombie and Fitch Commercial

Isabelle Crecca, Klallam: Not Sleeping but Awakening

Anne Tynan, I’m finna prove something: A study on the grammaticalization of ‘fixing to’

Dustin Davis, Automatic Poetry Generation

Salvador Avalos, A Case(marking) of Korean Postpositionals

Holly Lund, Hungarian: The Language of Extraterrestrials

Kailey Hegedus, Second Language Acquisition of Consonant Allophones in Mandarin

The student research in the 2017 Scholars Week panel grew out of Dr. Janet Xing’s 421 Grammaticalization class and Dr. Edward Vajda’s LING 402 Historical Linguistics class. 

Jeffrey Guptil, The Grammaticalization of "because" in Standard English

Margo Lamy, Lexicalopen_in_new(opens in new window) Borrowing in Turkish

Kiersten Mara, Degrammaticalization of ‘@’: How the usage of ‘@’ has changed due to the influence of Twitter

Taylor Thompson, Grammaticalization of Head Shakes in American Sign Language