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Theses/dissertations from 2022 2022.

Temporal Fluency in L2 Self-Assessments: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Spanish, Portuguese, and French , Mandy Case

Biblical Hebrew as a Negative Concord Language , J. Bradley Dukes

Revitalizing the Russian of a Heritage Speaker , Aaron Jordan

Analyzing Patterns of Complexity in Pre-University L2 English Writing , Zachary M. Lambert

Prosodic Modeling for Hymn Translation , Michael Abraham Peck

Interpretive Language and Museum Artwork: How Patrons Respond to Depictions of Native American and White Settler Encounters--A Thematic Analysis , Holli D. Rogerson

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Trademarks and Genericide: A Corpus and Experimental Approach to Understanding the Semantic Status of Trademarks , Richard B. Bevan

First and Second Language Use of Case, Aspect, and Tense in Finnish and English , Torin Kelley

Lexical Aspect in-sha Verb Chains in Pastaza Kichwa , Azya Dawn Ladd

Text-to-Speech Systems: Learner Perceptions of its Use as a Tool in the Language Classroom , Joseph Chi Man Mak

The Effects of Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback on the Accuracy and Complexity of Writing Produced by L2 Graduate Students , Lisa Rohm

Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions as Applied to Motivation in L2 Vocabulary Acquisition , Lindsay Michelle Stephenson

Linguistics of Russian Media During the 2016 US Election: A Corpus-Based Study , Devon K. Terry

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Portuguese and Chinese ESL Reading Behaviors Compared: An Eye-Tracking Study , Logan Kyle Blackwell

Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions to Lower Test Anxiety , Asena Cakmakci

The Categorization of Ideophone-Gesture Composites in Quichua Narratives , Maria Graciela Cano

Ranking Aspect-Based Features in Restaurant Reviews , Jacob Ling Hang Chan

Praise in Written Feedback: How L2 Writers Perceive and Value Praise , Karla Coca

Evidence for a Typology of Christ in the Book of Esther , L. Clayton Fausett

Gender Vs. Sex: Defining Meaning in a Modern World through use of Corpora and Semantic Surveys , Mary Elizabeth Garceau

The attributive suffix in Pastaza Kichwa , Barrett Wilson Hamp

An Examination of Motivation Types and Their Influence on English Proficiency for Current High School Students in South Korean , Euiyong Jung

Experienced ESL Teachers' Attitudes Towards Using Phonetic Symbols in Teaching English Pronunciation to Adult ESL Students , Oxana Kodirova

Evidentiality, Epistemic Modality and Mirativity: The Case of Cantonese Utterance Particles Ge3, Laak3, and Lo1 , Ka Fai Law

Application of a Self-Regulation Framework in an ESL Classroom: Effects on IEP International Students , Claudia Mencarelli

Parsing an American Sign Language Corpus with Combinatory Categorial Grammar , Michael Albert Nix

An Exploration of Mental Contrasting and Social Networks of English Language Learners , Adam T. Pinkston

A Corpus-Based Study of the Gender Assignment of Nominal Anglicisms in Brazilian Portuguese , Taryn Marie Skahill

Developing Listening Comprehension in ESL Students at the Intermediate Level by Reading Transcripts While Listening: A Cognitive Load Perspective , Sydney Sohler

The Effect of Language Learning Experience on Motivation and Anxiety of Foreign Language Learning Students , Josie Eileen Thacker

Identifying Language Needs in Community-Based Adult ELLs: Findings from an Ethnography of Four Salvadoran Immigrants in the Western United States , Kathryn Anne Watkins

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Using Eye Tracking to Examine Working Memory and Verbal Feature Processing in Spanish , Erik William Arnold

Self-Regulation in Transition: A Case Study of Three English Language Learners at an IEP , Allison Wallace Baker

"General Conference talk": Style Variation and the Styling of Identity in Latter-day Saint General Conference Oratory , Stephen Thomas Betts

Implementing Mental Contrasting to Improve English Language Learner Social Networks , Hannah Trimble Brown

Comparing Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) Frequency Bands to Leveled Biology and History Texts , Lynne Crandall

A Comparison of Mobile and Computer Receptive Language ESL Tests , Aislin Pickett Davis

Yea, Yea, Nay, Nay: Uses of the Archaic, Biblical Yea in the Book of Mormon , Michael Edward De Martini

L1 and L2 Reading Behaviors by Proficiency Level: An English-Portuguese Eye-Tracking Study , Larissa Grahl

Immediate Repeated Reading has Positive Effects on Reading Fluency for English Language Learners: An Eye-tracking Study , Jennifer Hemmert Hansen

Perceptions of Malaysian English Teachers Regarding the Importation of Expatriate Native and Nonnative English-speaking Teachers , Syringa Joanah Judd

Sociocultural Identification with the United States and English Pronunciation Comprehensibility and Accent Among International ESL Students , Christinah Paige Mulder

The Effects of Repeated Reading on the Fluency of Intermediate-Level English-as-a-Second-Language Learners: An Eye-Tracking Study , Krista Carlene Rich

Verb Usage in Egyptian Movies, Serials, and Blogs: A Case for Register Variation , Michael G. White

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Factors Influencing ESL Students' Selection of Intensive English Programs in the Western United States , Katie Briana Blanco

Pun Strategies Across Joke Schemata: A Corpus-Based Study , Robert Nishan Crapo

ESL Students' Reading Behaviors on Multiple-Choice Items at Differing Proficiency Levels: An Eye-Tracking Study , Juan M. Escalante Talavera

Backward Transfer of Apology Strategies from Japanese to English: Do English L1 Speakers Use Japanese-Style Apologies When Speaking English? , Candice April Flowers

Cultural Differences in Russian and English Magazine Advertising: A Pragmatic Approach , Emily Kay Furner

An Analysis of Rehearsed Speech Characteristics on the Oral Proficiency Interview—Computer (OPIc) , Gwyneth Elaine Gates

Predicting Speaking, Listening, and Reading Proficiency Gains During Study Abroad Using Social Network Metrics , Timothy James Hall

Navigating a New Culture: Analyzing Variables that Influence Intensive English Program Students' Cultural Adjustment Process , Sherie Lyn Kwok

Second Language Semantic Retrieval in the Bilingual Mind: The Case of Korean-English Expert Bilinguals , Janice Si-Man Lam

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Korean Heritage-Speaking Interpreter , Yoonjoo Lee

Reading Idioms: A Comparative Eye-Tracking Study of Native English Speakers and Native Korean Speakers , Sarah Lynne Miner

Applying the Developmental Path of English Negation to the Automated Scoring of Learner Essays , Allen Travis Moore

Performance Self-Appraisal Calibration of ESL Students on a Proficiency Reading Test , Jodi Mikolajcik Petersen

Switch-Reference in Pastaza Kichwa , Alexander Harrison Rice

The Effects of Metacognitive Listening Strategy Instruction on ESL Learners' Listening Motivation , Corbin Kalanikiakahi Rivera

The Effects of Teacher Background on How Teachers Assess Native-Like and Nonnative-Like Grammar Errors: An Eye-Tracking Study , Wesley Makoto Schramm

Rubric Rating with MFRM vs. Randomly Distributed Comparative Judgment: A Comparison of Two Approaches to Second-Language Writing Assessment , Maureen Estelle Sims

Investigating the Perception of Identity Shift in Trilingual Speakers: A Case Study , Elena Vasilachi

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Preparing Non-Native English Speakers for the Mathematical Vocabulary in the GRE and GMAT , Irina Mikhailovna Baskova

Eye Behavior While Reading Words of Sanskrit and Urdu Origin in Hindi , Tahira Carroll

An Acoustical Analysis of the American English /l, r/ Contrast as Produced by Adult Japanese Learners of English Incorporating Word Position and Task Type , Braden Paul Chase

The Rhetoric Revision Log: A Second Study on a Feedback Tool for ESL Student Writing , Natalie Marie Cole

Quizlet Flashcards for the First 500 Words of the Academic Vocabulary List , Emily R. Crandell

The Impact of Changing TOEFL Cut-Scores on University Admissions , Laura Michelle Decker

A Latent Class Analysis of American English Dialects , Stephanie Nicole Hedges

Comparing the AWL and AVL in Textbooks from an Intensive English Program , Michelle Morgan Hernandez

Faculty and EAL Student Perceptions of Writing Purposes and Challenges in the Business Major , Amy Mae Johnson

Multilingual Trends in Five London Boroughs: A Linguistic Landscape Approach , Shayla Ann Johnson

Nature or Nurture in English Academic Writing: Korean and American Rhetorical Patterns , Sunok Kim

Differences in the Motivations of Chinese Learners of English in Different (Foreign or Second Language) Contexts , Rui Li

Managing Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback: Perceptions of Experienced Teachers , Rachel A. Messenger

Spanish Heritage Bilingual Perception of English-Specific Vowel Contrasts , John B. Nielsen

Taking the "Foreign" Out of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale , Jared Benjamin Sell

Creole Genesis and Universality: Case, Word Order, and Agreement , Gerald Taylor Snow

Idioms or Open Choice? A Corpus Based Analysis , Kaitlyn Alayne VanWagoner

Applying Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis to an Unrestricted Corpus: A Case Study in Indonesian and Malay Newspapers , Sara LuAnne White

Investigating the effects of Rater's Second Language Learning Background and Familiarity with Test-Taker's First Language on Speaking Test Scores , Ksenia Zhao

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

The Influence of Online English Language Instruction on ESL Learners' Fluency Development , Rebecca Aaron

The Effect of Prompt Accent on Elicited Imitation Assessments in English as a Second Language , Jacob Garlin Barrows

A Framework for Evaluating Recommender Systems , Michael Gabriel Bean

Program and Classroom Factors Affecting Attendance Patterns For Hispanic Participants In Adult ESL Education , Steven J. Carter

A Longitudinal Analysis of Adult ESL Speakers' Oral Fluency Gains , Kostiantyn Fesenko

Rethinking Vocabulary Size Tests: Frequency Versus Item Difficulty , Brett James Hashimoto

The Onomatopoeic Ideophone-Gesture Relationship in Pastaza Quichua , Sarah Ann Hatton

A Hybrid Approach to Cross-Linguistic Tokenization: Morphology with Statistics , Logan R. Kearsley

Getting All the Ducks in a Row: Towards a Method for the Consolidation of English Idioms , Ethan Michael Lynn

Expecting Excellence: Student and Teacher Attitudes Towards Choosing to Speak English in an IEP , Alhyaba Encinas Moore

Lexical Trends in Young Adult Literature: A Corpus-Based Approach , Kyra McKinzie Nelson

A Corpus-Based Comparison of the Academic Word List and the Academic Vocabulary List , Jacob Andrew Newman

A Self-Regulated Learning Inventory Based on a Six-Dimensional Model of SRL , Christopher Nuttall

The Effectiveness of Using Written Feedback to Improve Adult ESL Learners' Spontaneous Pronunciation of English Suprasegmentals , Chirstin Stephens

Pragmatic Quotation Use in Online Yelp Reviews and its Connection to Author Sentiment , Mary Elisabeth Wright

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Conditional Sentences in Egyptian Colloquial and Modern Standard Arabic: A Corpus Study , Randell S. Bentley

A Corpus-Based Analysis of Russian Word Order Patterns , Stephanie Kay Billings

English to ASL Gloss Machine Translation , Mary Elizabeth Bonham

The Development of an ESP Vocabulary Study Guidefor the Utah State Driver Handbook , Kirsten M. Brown

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Information structure of complex sentences: an empirical investigation into at-issueness , 'ane end of an auld song': macro and micro perspectives on written scots in correspondence during the union of the parliaments debates , intervention, participation, perception: case studies of language activism in catalonia, norway & scotland , aspects of cross-variety dinka tonal phonology , attitudes and perceptions of saudi students towards their non-native emi instructors , explanatory mixed methods approach to the effects of integrating apology strategies: evidence from saudi arabic , multilingualism in later life: natural history & effects of language learning , first language attrition in late bilingualism: lexical, syntactic and prosodic changes in english-italian bilinguals , syntactic change during the anglicisation of scots: insights from the parsed corpus of scottish correspondence , causation is non-eventive , developmental trajectory of grammatical gender: evidence from arabic , copular clauses in malay: synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives , sentence processing in first language attrition: the interplay of language, experience and cognitive load , choosing to presuppose: strategic uses of presupposition triggers , mechanisms underlying pre-school children’s syntactic, morphophonological and referential processing during language production , development and processing of non-canonical word orders in mandarin-speaking children , role of transparency in the acquisition of inflectional morphology: experimental studies testing exponence type using artificial language learning , disability and sociophonetic variation among deaf or hard-of-hearing speakers of taiwan mandarin , structural priming in the grammatical network: a study of english argument structure constructions , how language adapts to the environment: an evolutionary, experimental approach .

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Dissertations from 2023 2023

Long(er) Object Movement in Turkish , Duygu Göksu, Linguistics

'You' Will Always Have 'Me': A Compositional Theory of Person , Kaden T. Holladay, Linguistics

Associative Plurals , Sherry Hucklebridge, Linguistics

Counterdirectionality in the Grammar: Reversals and Restitutions , Jyoti Iyer, Linguistics

The Online Processing of Even's Likelihood Presupposition , Erika Mayer, Linguistics

Dissertations from 2022 2022

On the Semantics of Verbal and Nominal Tense in Mvskoke (Creek) , Kimberly C. Johnson, Linguistics

Restrictive Tier Induction , Seoyoung Kim, Linguistics

DIRECTIONAL HARMONIC SERIALISM , Andrew Lamont, Linguistics

TENSE IN CONDITIONALS: INS AND OUTS , Zahra Mirrazi, Linguistics

Phonotactic Learning with Distributional Representations , Max A. Nelson, Linguistics

The Linearization of V(P)-doubling Constructions , Rong Yin, Linguistics

Dissertations from 2021 2021

Shifting the Perspectival Landscape: Methods for Encoding, Identifying, and Selecting Perspectives , Carolyn Jane Anderson, Linguistics

There and Gone Again: Syntactic Structure In Memory , Caroline Andrews, Linguistics

The Event Structure of Attitudes , Deniz Özyıldız, Linguistics

LEARNING PHONOLOGY WITH SEQUENCE-TO-SEQUENCE NEURAL NETWORKS , Brandon Prickett, Linguistics

The Syntactic and Semantic Atoms of the Spray/load Alternation , Michael A. Wilson, Linguistics

Dissertations from 2020 2020

Representing Context: Presupposition Triggers and Focus-sensitivity , Alexander Goebel, Linguistics

Person-based Prominence in Ojibwe , Christopher Hammerly, Linguistics

Emergent Typological Effects of Agent-Based Learning Models in Maximum Entropy Grammar , Coral Hughto, Linguistics

TALKING ABOUT HER(SELF): AMBIGUITY AVOIDANCE AND PRINCIPLE B. A Theoretical and Psycholinguistic Investigation of Romanian Pronouns , Rudmila-Rodica Ivan, Linguistics

THE EMPTINESS OF THE PRESENT: FRONTING CONSTRUCTIONS AS A WINDOW TO THE SEMANTICS OF TENSE , Petr Kusliy, Linguistics

Optimal Linearization: Prosodic displacement in Khoekhoegowab and Beyond , Leland Kusmer, Linguistics

Dissertations from 2019 2019

Computing Agreement in a Mixed System , Sakshi Bhatia, Linguistics

Binding and Coreference in Vietnamese , Thuy Bui, Linguistics

Divorce Licensing: Separate Criteria for Predicate and Clausal Ellipsis , Tracy Conner, Linguistics

Effects of Phonological Contrast on Within-Category Phonetic Variation , Ivy Hauser, Linguistics

Phrasal and Clausal Exceptive-Additive Constructions Crosslinguistically , Ekaterina Vostrikova, Linguistics

Dissertations from 2018 2018

Typology of bizarre ellipsis varieties , David Erschler, Linguistics

The Head-Quarters of Mandarin Arguments , Hsin-Lun Huang, Linguistics

ATTITUDES DE SE AND LOGOPHORICITY , Yangsook Park, Linguistics

Responding to questions and assertions: embedded Polar Response Particles, ellipsis, and contrast , Jeremy Pasquereau, Linguistics

Dissertations from 2017 2017

The Form and Acquisition of Free Relatives , Michael Clauss, Linguistics

Amount Relatives Redux , Jon Ander Mendia, Linguistics

Movement and the Semantic Type of Traces , Ethan Poole, Linguistics

Preferential early attribution in segmental parsing , Amanda Rysling, Linguistics

When errors aren't: How comprehenders selectively violate Binding Theory , Shayne Sloggett, Linguistics

Dissertations from 2016 2016

Building Meaning in Navajo , Elizabeth A. Bogal-Allbritten, Linguistics

Probes and their Horizons , Stefan Keine, Linguistics

Anaphora, Inversion, and Focus , Nicholas J. LaCara, Linguistics

The Representation of Probabilistic Phonological Patterns: Neurological, Behavioral, and Computational Evidence from the English Stress System , Claire Moore-Cantwell, Linguistics

Extending Hidden Structure Learning: Features, Opacity, and Exceptions , Aleksei I. Nazarov, Linguistics

Dissertations from 2015 2015

Experiencing in Japanese: The Experiencer Restriction across Clausal Types , Masashi Hashimoto, Linguistics

Rightward Movement: A Study in Locality , Jason Overfelt, Linguistics

Investigating Properties of Phonotactic Knowledge Through Web-Based Experimentation , Presley Pizzo, Linguistics

Phonologically Conditioned Allomorphy and UR Constraints , Brian W. Smith, Linguistics

Dissertations from 2014 2014

Contrastive Topic: Meanings and Realizations , Noah Constant, Linguistics

The Grammar of Individuation and Counting , Suzi Lima, Linguistics

Comprehending Each Other: Weak Reciprocity and Processing , Helen Majewski, Linguistics

Computational Modeling of Learning Biases in Stress Typology , Robert D. Staubs, Linguistics

Fragments and Clausal Ellipsis , Andrew Weir, Linguistics

Dissertations from 2013 2013

Gapping in Farsi: A Crosslinguistic Investigation , Annahita Farudi, Linguistics

The Parsing and Interpretation of Comparatives: More than Meets the Eye , Margaret Ann Grant, Linguistics

Dissertations from 2012 2012

Syntax-Prosody Interactions in Irish , Emily Elfner, Linguistics

Processing Perspectives , Jesse Aron Harris, Linguistics

Exhaustivity In Questions & Clefts; And The Quantifier Connection: A Study In German And English , Tanja Heizmann, Linguistics

Phonological And Phonetic Biases In Speech Perception , Michael Parrish Key, Linguistics

The Role of Contextual Restriction in Reference-Tracking , Andrew Robert McKenzie, Linguistics

Stress in Harmonic Serialism , Kathryn Ringler Pruitt, Linguistics

Roots of Modality , Aynat Rubinstein, Linguistics

Goals, Big and Small , Martin Walkow, Linguistics

Dissertations from 2011 2011

Quantification, misc. , Jan Anderssen, Linguistics

Anchoring Pragmatics In Syntax And Semantics , Maria Biezma, Linguistics

Constraining Interpretation: Sentence Final Particles in Japanese , Christopher M. Davis, Linguistics

Cumulative constraint interaction in phonological acquisition and typology , Karen Christine Jesney

Cumulative Constraint Interaction In Phonological Acquisition And Typology , Karen Christine Jesney, Linguistics

Competing Triggers: Transparency And Opacity In Vowel Harmony , Wendell A Kimper, Linguistics

Dissertations from 2010 2010

Topics In The Nez Perce Verb , Amy Rose Deal, Linguistics

Concealed Questions. In Search Of Answers , Ilaria Frana, Linguistics

Dissertations from 2009 2009

Phonological Trends In The Lexicon: The Role Of Constraints , Michael Becker, Linguistics

Natural Selection and the Syntax of Clausal Complementation , Keir Moulton, Linguistics

Two Types of Definites in Natural Language , Florian Schwarz, Linguistics

The Role Of Lexical Contrast In The Perception Of Intonational Prominence In Japanese , Takahito Shinya, Linguistics

The Emergence of DP in the Partitive Structure , Helen Stickney, Linguistics

Optionality and Variability: Syntactic Licensing Meets Morphological Spell-Out , Cherlon Ussery, Linguistics

Word, Phrase, And Clitic Prosody In Bosnian, Serbian, And Croatian , Adam Werle, Linguistics

Dissertations from 2008 2008

Optimal interleaving: Serial phonology -morphology interaction in a constraint-based model , Matthew Adam Wolf

Dissertations from 2007 2007

The sources of phonological markedness , Kathryn Gilbert Flack

The emergence of phonetic naturalness , Shigeto Kawahara

Biases and stages in phonological acquisition , Anne-Michelle Tessier

Acquisition of scalar implicatures , Anna VerBuk

Dissertations from 2006 2006

Disjunction in alternative semantics , Luis Alonso-Ovalle

Acquisition of a natural versus an unnatural stress system , Angela C Carpenter

Asymmetries in the acquisition of consonant clusters , Della Chambless

Telicity and the syntax-semantics of the *object and *subject , Miren J Hodgson

Variables in Natural Language , Meredith Landman, Linguistics

Dissertations from 2005 2005

On the Accessiblity of Possible Worlds: The Role of Tense and Aspect , Ana Cristina Arregui

Perception of foreignness , Ben Gelbart

Prosody and LF interpretation: Processing Japanese wh -questions , Masako Hirotani

The grammar of choice , Paula Menendez-Benito

Mediated *modification: Functional structure and the interpretation of modifier position , Marcin Morzycki

Dissertations from 2004 2004

What it means to be a loser: Non -optimal candidates in optimality theory , Andries W Coetzee

Scope: The View from Indefinites , Ji-Yung Kim

Event-structure and the internally headed relative clause construction in Korean and Japanese , Min-Joo Kim

Spain or bust? Assessment and student perceptions of out-of-class contact and oral proficiency in a study abroad context , Vija Glazer Mendelson

On the articulation of aspectual meaning in African -American English , Jules Michael Eugene Terry

Dissertations from 2003 2003

Deriving Economy: Syncope in Optimality Theory , Maria Gouskova

Gestures and segments: Vowel intrusion as overlap , Nancy Elizabeth Hall

The development of phonological categories in children's perception of final voicing in dialects of English , Caroline Jones

Argument structure and the lexicon /syntax interface , Eva Juarros

Contrast preservation in phonological mappings , Anna Lubowicz

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Theses/Dissertations

Since 1999, most theses and dissertations submitted by graduate students at the university are published online in the UGA Electronic Theses and Dissertations Database (ETD) . This page is a list of recent theses and dissertations produced by graduates of the University of Georgia M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Linguistics, with a link to the UGA ETD page for the pdf file.

Dissertations

Julia Steele Josephs. Ph.D., 2023. Variable Que in Three Francophone Regions Advisor: Diana L. Ranson

Trevor Ramsey . Ph.D., 2023. Phonetic Trend in the Speech of Transgender Speakers of English and German Advisor: Margaret Renwick

Jacob Emerson. M.A., 2023.  Emojis: Perceptions by Online Communities Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld

Julia Horton. M.A., 2023. So What Does It Do?: the Multifunctionality of Discourse Marker so in Two Television Sitcoms Advisor: Sarah E. Blackwell

Michael Gray. M.A., 2023. Emojis and the Expression of Queer Identity: A Sentiment Analysis Approach Advisor: Chad Howe

Andrew Robert Bray. Ph.D., 2022. A Hockey-Based Persona: The Sociolinguistic Impact of Canadian English on American-Born Players Advisor: Chad Howe

Kit Callaway. Ph.D., 2022. From Ey to Ze: Gender-neutral Pronouns as Pronominal Change Advisor: Chad Howe

Wonbin Kim.  Ph.D., 2022. Distributional Corpus Analysis of Korean Neologisms using Artificial Intelligence Advisor:  William A. Kretzschmar 

Katherine Ireland Kuiper. Ph.D., 2022. Patterns of Health: A Corpus Analysis of Health Information and Messaging Advisor: William A. Kretzschmar

Rachel Miller Olsen. Ph.D., 2022. IT’S ALL IN HOW YOU SAY IT: PROSODIC CUES TO SOCIAL IDENTITY AND EMOTION Advisor: Margaret E. L. Renwick

Shannon Penton Rodriguez. Ph.D., 2022. Constructing, Performing, and Indexing “Southern” Latino Identities: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the Intersection of Ethnicity and Place in the Speech of Young Adult Latinos in Georgia Advisor: Chad Howe

Rachel A. Ankirskiy. M.A., 2022. VARIATION IN JAPANESE NOMINAL PARTICLE OMISSION: TOWARDS A CORPUS-BASED SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld

Joseph Finnegan Beckwith. M.A., 2022. THE DECLINE OF THE SIMPLE PAST: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SIMPLE AND COMPOUND PAST FORMS IN ROMANCE AND GERMANIC LANGUAGES Advisor: Jared Klein

Lisa Lipani. Ph.D., 2021. Subphonemic Variation in English Stops: Studies using automated methods and large-scale data Advisor: Margaret Renwick

Michael Olsen. Ph.D., 2021. CULTURAL KEYWORDS IN AMERICAN EDITORIAL DISCOURSE Advisor: William A. Kretzschmar

Bailey Bigott. M.A., 2021. Mock Infantile Speech: A Sociolinguistics Perspective Advisor: Jon Forrest

Kora Layce Burton. M.A., 2021. Lexical and Thematic "Peculiar Mood" Development of Faërie Language in the Germanic Cauldron of Story Advisor: Jared Klein

Mary Caroline Clabby. M.A., 2021. Comme Y’all Voulez: Translanguaging Practices in Digitally Mediated Communication Advisor: Linda Harklau

Jordan Grace Graham. M.A., 2021. #WHOSE LIVES MATTER: A MIXED MEDIA ANALYSIS OF THE #BLACKLIVESMATTER AND #BLUELIVESMATTER ON TWITTER DURING THE SUMMER OF 2020 Advisor: John Hale

Lindsey Antonini. Ph.D., 2020. The Copula in Malayalam Advisor: Pilar Chamorro

Joey Stanley. Ph.D., 2020. Vowel Dynamics of the Elsewhere Shift: A Sociophonetic Analysis of English in Cowlitz County, Washington Advisor: Lewis Chadwick Howe

Longlong Wang. Ph.D.., 2020. The Past Tenses in Colloquial Singapore English Advisor: Pilar Chamorro

Douglas C. Merchant. Ph.D., 2019. Idioms at the interface(s): towards a psycholinguistically grounded model of sentence generation Advisor: Timothy Gupton

Aidan Oliver Cheney-Lynch.  M.A., 2019. Studies in feminine derivation in Vedic Advisor: Jared Klein

Conni Diane Covington.  M.A., 2019. Frequency and the German(ic) verb: a historical sociolinguistic study of class VII Advisor: Joshua Bousquette

William James Lackey III . M.A., 2019. Denasalization in early austronesian Advisor: Jared Klein

Kelly Wade Petronis . M.A., 2019. Finding the game: a conversation analysis of laughables and play frames in comedic improv Advisor: Ruth Harman

Mohammad Fahad Aljutaily . Ph.D. 2018. The influence of linguistic and non-linguistic factors on the variation of Arabic marked consonants in the speech of Gulf Pidgin Arabic : acoustic analysis Advisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe

Sofia Alexandrovna Ivanova . Ph.D. 2018. Cue weighting in the acquisition of four American English vowel contrasts by native speakers of Russian Co-Advisors: Victoria Hasko and Keith Langston

Elisabeth Wood Anderson Lacross .   Ph.D. 2018. Variation in future temporal reference in southern France Advisor: Diana Ranson

Sandra McGury .   Ph.D. 2018. Passives are tough to analyze Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld

Amanda Nicole Walls . Ph.D. 2018. Israel's Pagan Passover Advisor: Richard Friedman

Alexander Ankirskiy . M.A. 2018. Investigating the potential for merger of Icelandic 'flámæli' vowel pairs through functional load Advisor: Margaret Renwick

Ryan Michael Dekker . M.A. 2018. Income effects on speech community: : Oconee County within northeastern Georgia Advisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe

Nicole Elizabeth Dreier . M.A. 2018. Gender in Proto-Indo-European and the feminine morphemes Advisor: Jared Klein

Melissa Ann Gomes . M.A. 2018. A Holistic Analysis of Get Constructions Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld

Jason D Hagler . M.A. 2018. Call of qatullu: towards an understanding of the semantic role of terminal root consonant reduplication in the Semitic languages Advisor: Baruch Halpern

Joshua Robert Hummel . M.A. 2017. Conflict's connotation: a study of protest and riot in contemporary news media Advisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe

Madeline Asher Jones . M.A. 2017. The impact of EFL teacher motivational strategies on student motivation to learn english in Costa Rica Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld

Mariah Lillian Copeland Parker . M.A. 2017. Flippin' the script, joustin' from the mouth: a systemic functional linguistic approach to hip hop discourse Advisor:  Ruth Harman

Christa August Rampley . M.A. 2017. Ratchet: an etymological origin & social dispersion theory Advisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe

Joseph Thomas Rhyne . M.A. 2017. Quantifying the comparative method: applying computational approaches to the Balto-Slavic question Advisor: Jared Klein

Wei Chen . Ph.D. 2016. The impact of environmental factors on the production of english narratives by Spanish-English bilingual children Advisor: Liang Chen

Richard Moses Katz Jr . Ph.D. 2016. The resultative in Gothic Advisor: Jared Klein

Martin Jakub Macak . Ph.D. 2016. Studies in classical and modern Armenian phonology   Advisor: Jared Klein

Judith Allen Oliver . Ph.D. 2016. When fingerspelling throws a curveball Advisor: William Kretzschmar

Andrew Michael Paczkowski . Ph.D. 2016. Toward a new method for analyzing syntax in poetry: discriminating grammatical patterns in the Rigveda Advisor: Jared Klein

Jennimaria Kristiina Palomaki . Ph.D. 2016. The pragmatics and syntax of the Finnish -han particle clitic Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld

Calvin Ferst . M.A. 2016. Walhalla: language shift in the garden of the gods Advisor: Joshua Bousquette

Maisy Elizabeth French . M.A. 2016. When orthography and phonology collide: an examination of the effect of orthography on the phonetic production of homophones Advisor: Margaret Renwick

Karen Elizabeth Sesterhenn . M.A. 2016. An overview of the phenomenon of doublets in English Advisor: Jared Klein

Steven Slone Coats . Ph.D. 2015. Finland Twitter English: lexical, grammatical, and geographical properties Advisor: William Kretzschmar

Xiangyu Jiang . Ph.D. 2015. Ultimate attainment in the production of narratives by Chinese-English bilinguals Advisor: Liang Chen

Rachel Virginia Nabulsi . Ph.D. 2015. Burial practices, funerary texts, and the treatment of death in Iron Age Israel and Aram Advisor: Richard Friedman

Tomoe Nishio . Ph.D. 2015. Negotiating contradictions in a Japanese-American telecollaboration: an activity theory analysis of online intercultural exchange Advisor: Linda Harklau

Xiaodong Zhang . Ph.D. 2015. A discourse approach to teachers? beliefs and textbook use: a case study of a Chinese college EFL classroom Advisor: Ruth Harman

Michael Reid Ariail . M.A. 2015. Language and dialectal variation in request structures: an analysis of Costa Rican Spanish and southern American English Advisor: Sarah Blackwell

Eleanor Detreville . M.A. 2015. An overview of Latin morphological calques on Greek technical terms: formation and success Advisor: Jared Klein

Luke Madison Smith . M.A. 2015. External possession and the undisentanglability of syntax and semantics Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld

Scott Lee . Ph.D. 2014. The phonetics of intonation in learner varieties of French Advisor: Keith Langston

Laura Brewer . M.A. 2014. Cognitive connections between linguistic and musical syntax: an optimality theoretic approach Advisor: Keith Langston

Courtney Ann Macer . M.A. 2014. Relearning heritage language phonology Advisor: Margaret Renwick

Tiffany Strickland . M.A. 2014. Eat their words: a corpus-based analysis of grocery store discourse Advisor: Jonathan Evans

Julia Catherine Patterson Sturm . M.A. 2014. Idiomatization of preverb + verb compounds in the ?g Veda Advisor: Jared Klein

Kenneth Jeffrey Knight . Ph.D. 2013. L1 English vocalic transfer in L2 Japanese Advisor: Don McCreary

Heather Lee Mello . Ph.D. 2013. Analysis of language variation and word segmentation for a corpus of Vietnamese blogs: a sociolinguistic approach Advisor: William Kretzschmar

Hugo Enrique Mendez . Ph.D. 2013. Canticles in translation: the treatment of poetic language in the Greek, Gothic, Classical Armenian, and Old Church Slavonic gospels Advisor: Jared Klein

Nicole Elizabeth Siffrinn . M.A. 2013. Using appraisal analysis to map value systems in high-stakes writing rubrics Advisor: Ruth Harman

Mark Raymund Wenthe . Ph.D. 2012. Issues in the placement of enclitic personal pronouns in the Rigveda Advisor: Jared Klein

Ellen Marie Ayres . M.A. 2012. Influences on gender agreement in adjectives among adult learners of Spanish Advisor: Don McCreary

Marcus Paul Berger . M.A. 2012. Parallel hierarchies: a minimalist analysis of nominals and gerunds Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld

Kelly Patricia Dugan . M.A. 2012. A generative approach to homeric enjambment: benefits and drawbacks Advisor: Jared Klein

Kristen Marie Fredriksen . M.A. 2012. Constraints on perfect auxiliary contraction: evidence from spoken American English Advisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe

Anastasia Nikolaevna Sorokina . M.A. 2012. The dynamics of bilingual mental lexcon: the effects of partical conceptual equivalence on acquisition of Russian as an L2 Advisor: Victoria Hasko

Allison Rebecca Wachter . M.A. 2012. Semantic prosody and intensifier variation in academic speech Advisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe

Sam Zukoff . M.A. 2012. The phonology of verbal reduplication in Ancient Greek: an Optimality Theory approach Advisor: Jared Klein

Radia Benzehra . Ph.D. 2011. Arabic-English/ English-Arabic lexicography: a critical perspective Advisor: Don McCreary

Satomi Suzuki Chenoweth . Ph.D. 2011. Novice language learners? Off-screen verbal and nonverbal behaviors during university synchronous Japanese virtual education Advisors: Kathryn Roulston & Linda Harklau

Willie Udo Willie . Ph.D. 2011. Lexical aspect and lexical saliency in acquisition of past tense-aspect morphology among Ibibio ESL learners Advisor: Lioba Moshi

Renee Lorraine Kemp . M.A. 2011. The perception of German dorsal fricatives by native speakers of English Advisor:  Keith Langston

Erin Beltran Mitchelson . M.A. 2011. Implicature use in L2 Advisor: Don McCreary

Justin Victor Sperlein . M.A. 2011. A Phonetic Summarizer for Sociolinguists: concordancing by phonetic criteria Advisor: William Kretzschmar

Garrison E. Bickerstaff Jr . Ph.D. 2010. Construction and application of Bounded Virtual Corpora of British and American English Advisor: William Kretzschmar

Paulina Bounds . Ph.D. 2010. Perception versus production of Polish speech: Pozna? Advisor: William Kretzschmar

Alberto Centeno-Pulido . Ph.D. 2010. Reconciling generativist and functionalist approaches on adjectival position in Spanish Advisor:  Sarah Blackwell

Janay Crabtree . Ph.D. 2010. Roads and paths in adaptation to non-native speech and implications for second language acquisition Advisor: Don McCreary

Jeff Kilpatrick . Ph.D. 2010. The development of Latin post-tonic /Cr/ clusters in select Northern Italian dialects Advisor: Jared Klein

Joseph Allen Pennington . Ph.D. 2010. A study of purpose, result, and casual hypotaxis in early Indo-European gospel versions Advisor: Jared Klein

Aram Cho . M.A. 2010. Influence of L1 on L2 learners of Korean: a perception test on Korean vowels and stop consonants Advisor: Don McCreary

Frances Rankin Gray . M.A. 2010. It's like 120 milliseconds: a search for grammaticalization in the duration of like in five functions Advisor: Don McCreary

Magdalene Sophia Jacobs . M.A. 2010. The decline of the French passe simple: a variationist analysis of the passÉ simple and passe compose in selected texts from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries Advisor: Diana Ranson

Nathan Loggins . M.A. 2010. Mandarin loanword phonology: a case study of three English mid vowels Advisor: Keith Langston

Caley Charles Smith . M.A. 2010. The development of final [asterisk]/-as/ in Pre-Vedic Advisor: Jared Klein

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• Automatic Analysis of Epistemic Stance-Taking in Academic English Writing: A Systemic Functional Approach  Eguchi, Masaki ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-10 ) Existing linguistic textual measures that investigate features of academic writing often focus on lexis, syntax, and cohesion, despite writing skills being considered more complex and multifaceted (e.g., Sparks et al., ...
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• Influences on Expert Intelligibility Judgments of School-age Children's Speech  Potratz, Jill ( University of Oregon , 2023-03-24 ) Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) make impressionistic intelligibility judgments as part of an evaluation of children for speech sound disorders. Despite the lack of formalization, it is an important measure of choice ...
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• Production and Perception of Native and Non-native Speech Enhancements  Kato, Misaki ( University of Oregon , 2020-12-08 ) One important factor that contributes to successful speech communication is an individual’s ability to speak more clearly when their listeners do not understand their speech. Though native talkers are able to implement ...
• Contingency, Contiguity, and Capacity: On the Meaning of the Instrumental Case Marking in Copular Predicative Constructions in Russian  Tretiak, Valeriia ( University of Oregon , 2020-12-08 ) This study investigates the use of the Instrumental case marking in copular predicative constructions in Russian. The study endeavors to explain why the case marking whose prototypical meaning cross-linguistically is that ...
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• Teaching Papa to Cha-Cha: How Change Magnitude, Temporal Contiguity, and Task Affect Alternation Learning  Smolek, Amy ( University of Oregon , 2020-02-27 ) In this dissertation, we investigate how speakers produce wordforms they may not have heard before. Paradigm Uniformity (PU) is the cross-linguistic bias against stem changes, particularly large changes. We propose the ...
• Verbal Morphology of Amdo Tibetan  Tribur, Zoe ( University of Oregon , 2020-02-27 ) This dissertation describes the functional and structural properties of the Amdo Tibetan verb system. Amdo Tibetan (Tibetic, Trans-Himalayan) is a verb-final language, characterized by an elaborate system of post-verbal ...
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• Accessibility, Language Production, and Language Change  Harmon, Zara ( University of Oregon , 2019-09-18 ) This dissertation explores the effects of frequency on the learning and use of linguistic constructions. The work examines the influence of frequency on form choice in production and meaning inference in comprehension and ...

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Diachronic poetics and language history: studies in archaic greek poetry , feature mismatch: deponency in indo-european languages , interpreting questions with non-exhaustive answers , linking form to meaning: reevaluating the evidence for the unaccusative hypothesis , a modular theory of radical pro drop , nominal arguments and language variation , prosodic noun incorporation and verb-initial syntax , the semantics of measurement , the sense of self: topics in the semantics of de se expressions , soft but strong. neg-raising, soft triggers, and exhaustification , split intransitivity in ranmo , studies in tocharian adjective formation , the syntax-phonology interface in native and near-native korean , the caland system in the north: archaism and innovation in property-concept/state morphology in balto-slavic , the linguistic and conceptual representation of scalar alternatives: number and 'only' as case studies , toward a theory of mandarin quantification , unnatural phonology: a synchrony-diachrony interface approach .

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Theses/dissertations from 2022 2022.

The word-level prosodic system of Mangghuer , Teresa Ellen Arthur

Evolutionary cartographies of language diversification: Quantitative approaches to the geolinguistic mapping of the Kayanic languages (Central Borneo) , DeAndré A. Espree-Conaway

Evolutionary Cartographies Of Language Diversification: Quantitative Approaches To The Geolinguistic Mapping Of The Kayanic Languages (Central Borneo) , Deandre Anthony Espree-Conaway

Verticality metaphors in Classical Hebrew revisited: Refining the analysis using Primary Metaphor Theory , Andrew Scott Hodge

Effective communication in League of Legends , Mia Sue Lopez

A phonological analysis of Asu , James Passetti

Li Xei: A phonology of an understudied Bahnaric language in central Vietnam , Stephanie Lynn Person

A grammar sketch of Kinamayo , Benjamin James Schmitt

Weaving ethnic identity: Discovering the threads of multilingual diversity in the fabric of group identity among Karen communities of Denver, Colorado , Charity J. Seidler

Contextualizing mother-tongue based multilingual education preschools within the Turkmen community of Afghanistan , Carrie Ann Shaver

Multilingual education curriculum development in low and middle-income countries , Gena N. Wambsganss

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

A typology of morphological argument focus marking , Aidan Alexander Aannestad

Klon pronouns in their typological and linguistic context within Wallacea, Eastern Indonesia , Johnny Marshel Banamtuan

Just a little respect: Authority and competency in women's speech , Bridget Anne Carroll

Information structure in Mangghuer: A narrative text analysis of topic and focus in a Mongolic language of northwestern China , Cory Christopher Coogan

Measuring cross-cultural engagement of those using the Growing Participator Approach , Cheryl Lea Cross

Participant reference in Colombian Sign Language narrative , Martha Lois Gateley

An analysis of the privileged syntactic argument in three Sayula Popoluca texts , Corey Havlicek

Exploring aspects of reported speech in vehicular Jula of Burkina Faso , Susan Marie Locklin

Language Archive Records: Interoperability Of Referencing Practices And Metadata Models , Hugh J. Paterson III

The iconicity and non-arbitrariness of body locations in four unrelated sign languages , John Samson

Complex predicates in Southern Turkmen: A Role and Reference Grammar analysis , Nathaniel Andrew Shaver

Investigating information structure and word order in Latin poetry: An analysis of epigrams , Justin Riley Soderholm

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Perception and production of Nanning Mandarin fourth tone , Julie Flaming

Distinguishing passive from MP2-marked middle in Koine Greek , Andrew Charles Lamicela

The phonology of Mbati , Sarah Gloria LePage

Information structure in Soumraye (Somrai), an Eastern Chadic language , Emily Ruthann Miller

The vowels of Urban Qatari Arabic , Mark Daniel Shockley

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

A text-based exploration of topics in White Hmong grammar , Katherine Ann Birnschein

Evaluative discourse as community identity among expatriates in Shenzhen, China , Karyn Harding

Dialect transfer for L2 Arabic learners , Jozeca Lathrop

Using context to communicate: Romanian Sign Language learners and their communication strategies , Rebecca Melville

Constituent order and participant reference in Napo Quichua narrative discourse , Larinda Moffitt

Phonology and morphology of Bolgo , Katie Ann Tikka

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Some features of participant reference in Xochapa Mixtec , Laura J. Cline

Reference tracking in Ethiopian Sign Language , Katelin Jo French

The impact of translation on constructed action and constructed dialogue in ASL texts , Beth C. Gray

Modest dress as literacy practice in English-speaking conservative Mennonite groups , Megan Lois Mong

A phonology of Hill (Kone-Tu) Asho , Daniel Tignor

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Lexical categories in Lengua de Señas Argentina , Roman Caceres

Referring forms and cognitive status in non-narrative American Sign Language texts , Tamara Michelle Grosso

Alternations in Murui: A morphological approach , Amy Havlicek

Tone in Acatlán Mixtec nouns , Esteban I. Méndez-Hord

Tools for assessing relatedness in understudied language varieties: A survey of Mixtec varieties in western Oaxaca, Mexico , Erin Padgett

Structural narratology in Romanian Sign Language personal experience narratives , Jessica Sohre

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Voice in Bugis: An RRG perspective , Douglas C. Laskowske

An acoustic study of Kope, Northeast Kiwai, Papua New Guinea, with preliminary tonal analysis , Julia Martin

Verbal morphology and grammatical aspect in Sarikoli , Timothy S. Palmer

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Spectrums, subgroups and school-lunch: The linguistic capital of students with autism , Scott Belden

Case and pragmatic status markers in Embera Katío , Bethany Winter Carlson

Computer-assisted vocabulary learning for Deaf learners of foreign sign languages , Benjamin J. Cavaletto

Deixis in Shughni: Grammatical and semantic considerations , Katja S. Mueller

Falam immigrants in America: Motivations for language use, maintenance, and shift , Hannah Reeves

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Placing Wardak among Pashto varieties , Dennis Walter Coyle

Consonant correspondences of Burmese, Rakhine and Marma with initial implications for historical relationships , Heidi A. Davis

The pronominal clitics of Logar Ormuri , Jeremy Hawbaker

Verbal fluency: Norms for the Lakota population in semantic and phonemic fluency tasks , Larissa M. Jordan

Subordination in Sarikoli , Deborah Kim

A description and analysis of four metarepresentation markers of Indus Kohistani , Beate Lubberger

Handshapes in Afghan Sign Language , Justin Power

The phonetics and phonology of Bora tone , Amy Roe

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

The tone system of Acatepec Me'paa , Kevin Cline

Resemblance-oriented communication strategies: Understanding the role of resemblance in signed and spoken languages , Daniel R. Eberle

Locative expressions in signed languages: A cross-linguistic comparison , Sarah E. Eberle

Many voices, many selves: An analysis of education blog discourses , Kelli Lynn Finney

A structured PC-PATR grammar editor and application to Bahasa Indonesia , Trafton Fletcher Hardison

Toward a further understanding of the extensibility of sign languages , Jason Hopkins

Grammar enhanced biliteracy: Naskapi language structures for facilitating reading in Naskapi , William Joseph Jancewicz

Classifier constructions as procedural signs in American Sign Language , Stephen Perry Jones Ii

Numeral incorporation in American Sign Language , Vanessa L. Jones

A survey of those in the U.S. Deaf community about reading and writing ASL , Jennifer Keogh

ELL vocabulary acquisition: How improvement measurements are affected by text type, English reading ability, and assessment methods , JoEllen Magnus

The mouthing of verbs in Japanese Sign Language , Mark Penner

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Six discourse markers in Tunisian Arabic: A syntactic and pragmatic analysis , Chris Adams

Participatory methods in sociolinguistic sign language survey: A case study in El Salvador , Julia Ciupek-Reed

Forecasting the vitality of the Fur language: A study in language use patterns and attitudes in Darfur , Kerry Mae Corbett

The acoustic qualities of Embera Katío stops , Gisella Teresa Greenfield Vélez

A phonological analysis of Mro Khimi , Christina Scotte Hornéy

Reference in Udi narrative discourse , Catherine MacLeod

The phonology and morphology of verb forms in Mubi , Davis Prickett

Persuasion and manipulation: Relevance across multiple audiences , Kevin Sparks

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Thematic groupings in Magpie Miao narrative , Won Ho Kim

Sign language word list comparisons: Toward a replicable coding and scoring methodology , Jason Parks

A grammar of SignWriting , Stuart M. Thiessen

Phonological and phonetic aspects of Enggano vowels , Brendon E. Yoder

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Word order typology in modern South Arabian languages: A study based on a corpus of analyzed texts , David A. Cross Jr.

Berne, Indiana Swiss German: Lessons learned from a small-scale documentation project , Gretta Yoder Owen

Motion events in Seri: Applying Talmy's typologies , April E. Sachs

Placing İsmayıllı Lezgi among the Lezgi dialects , Jessica Smith

A phonological description of "Pet Talk" in Arara , Isaac Costa de Souza

The morphology of nouns in the Ugoroŋmo language (Arara of Pará) , Shirley Dias Cardoso de Souza

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

A brief sketch of Urama grammar with special consideration of particles marking agency, aspect, and modality , Janessa L. Brown

Palembangese in print: An NLS look at literacies, linguacies, communicacies, and culturacies in South Sumatra , Jacob M. Hall

A study in the design and impact of an oral/aural bridge component in second language literacy , Holly A. Leslie

Place names in Israeli Sign Language , Bettina Revilla

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

The phonology and morphology of the Dar Daju Daju language , Arthur J. Aviles

Subordination, grounding and the packaging of information in Gojri , Kara Suzanne Fast

Verbal tone in Mpyemo , Bradley D. Festen

Constituent order and participant reference in Dolnia Hani narrative discourse , Karen L. Gainer

Biliteracy and skills transfer: Literacy skills transfer from Arabic to English focusing on lexical access , Henry J. Hauser

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Applied Linguistics Dissertations and Theses

Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Critical Analysis of Anti-Asian Hate in the News , Benardo Douglas Relampagos

A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of NASA's Instagram Account , Danica Lynn Tomber

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

A Computer Science Academic Vocabulary List , David Roesler

Variation in Female and Male Dialogue in Buffy the Vampire Slayer : A Multi-dimensional Analysis , Amber Morgan Sanchez

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Differences in Syntactic Complexity in the Writing of EL1 and ELL Civil Engineering Students , Santiago Gustin

A Mixed Methods Analysis of Corpus Data from Reddit Discussions of "Gay Voice" , Sara Elizabeth Mulliner

Relationship Between Empathy and Language Proficiency in Adult Language Learners , Mika Sakai

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

College Student Rankings of Multiple Speakers in a Public Speaking Context: a Language Attitudes Study on Japanese-accented English with a World Englishes Perspective , John James Ahlbrecht

Grammatical Errors by Arabic ESL Students: an Investigation of L1 Transfer through Error Analysis , Aisha Saud Alasfour

Foreign Language Anxiety, Sexuality, and Gender: Lived Experiences of Four LGBTQ+ Students , James Donald Mitchell

Verb Stem Alternation in Vaiphei , Jesse Prichard

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Teacher and Student Perceptions of World Englishes (WE) Pronunciations in two US Settings , Marie Arrieta

Escalating Language at Traffic Stops: Two Case Studies , Jamalieh Haley

Lexical Bundles in Applied Linguistics and Literature Writing: a Comparison of Intermediate English Learners and Professionals , Kathryn Marie Johnston

Multilingualism and Multiculturalism: Opinions from Spanish-Speaking English Learners from Mexico, Central America, and South America , Cailey Catherine Moe

An Analytical System for Determining Disciplinary Vocabulary for Data-Driven Learning: an Example from Civil Engineering , Philippa Jean Otto

Loanwords in Context: Lexical Borrowing from English to Japanese and its Effects on Second-Language Vocabulary Acquisition , Andrew Michael Sowers

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

The Effect of Extended Instruction on Passive Voice, Reduced Relative Clauses, and Modal Would in the Academic Writing of Advanced English Language Learners , Audrey Bailey

Identity Construction and Language Use by Immigrant Women in a Microenterprise Development Program , Linda Eve Bonder

"That's the test?" Washback Effects of an Alternative Assessment in a Culturally Heterogeneous EAP University Class , Abigail Bennett Carrigan

Wiki-based Collaborative Creative Writing in the ESL Classroom , Rima Elabdali

A Study of the Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Interpretability of Standard Marine Communication Phrases as Perceived by Chinese Mariners , Lillian Christine Holland

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Empowering All Who Teach: A Portrait of Two Non-Native English Speaking Teachers in a Globalized 21st Century , Rosa Dene David

A Corpus Based Analysis of Noun Modification in Empirical Research Articles in Applied Linguistics , Jo-Anne Hutter

Sound Effects: Age, Gender, and Sound Symbolism in American English , Timothy Allen Krause

Perspectives on the College Readiness and Outcome Achievement of Former Intensive English Language Program (IELP) Students , Meghan Oswalt

The Cognitive Development of Expertise in an ESL Teacher: A Case Study , Lyndsey Roos

Identity and Investment in the Community ESL Classroom , Jennifer Marie Sacklin

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Code Switching Between Tamazight and Arabic in the First Libyan Berber News Broadcast: An Application of Myers-Scotton's MLF and 4M Models , Ashour S. Abdulaziz

Self-Efficacy in Low-Level English Language Learners , Laura F. Blumenthal

The Impact of Wiki-based Collaborative Writing on English L2 Learners' Individual Writing Development , Gina Christina Caruso

Latino Men Managing HIV: An Appraisal Analysis of Intersubjective Relations in the Discourse of Five Research Interviews , Will Caston

Opportunities for Incidental Acquisition of Academic Vocabulary from Teacher Speech in an English for Academic Purposes Classroom , Eric Dean Dodson

Emerging Lexical Organization from Intentional Vocabulary Learning , Adam Jones

Effects of the First Language on Japanese ESL Learners' Answers to Negative Questions , Kosuke Kanda

"Had sh'er haute gamme, high technology": An Application of the MLF and 4-M Models to French-Arabic Codeswitching in Algerian Hip Hop , Samuel Nickilaus McLain-Jespersen

Is Self-Sufficiency Really Sufficient? A Critical Analysis of Federal Refugee Resettlement Policy and Local Attendant English Language Training in Portland, Oregon , Domminick McParland

Explorations into the Psycholinguistic Validity of Extended Collocations , J. Arianna Morgan

A Comparison of Linguistic Features in the Academic Writing of Advanced English Language Learner and English First Language University Students , Margo K. Russell

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

The First Year: Development of Preservice Teacher Beliefs About Teaching and Learning During Year One of an MA TESOL Program , Emily Spady Addiego

L1 Influence on L2 Intonation in Russian Speakers of English , Christiane Fleur Crosby

English Loan Words in Japanese: Exploring Comprehension and Register , Naoko Horikawa

The Role of Expectations on Nonnative English Speaking Students' Wrtiting , Sara Marie Van Dan Acker

Hypothetical Would-Clauses in Korean EFL Textbooks: An Analysis Based on a Corpus Study and Focus on Form Approach , Soyung Yoo

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Negative Transfer in the Writing of Proficient Students of Russian: A Comparison of Heritage Language Learners and Second Language Learners , Daria Aleeva

Informal Learning Choices of Japanese ESL Students in the United States , Brent Harrison Amburgey

Iktomi: A Character Traits Analysis of a Dakota Culture Myth , Marianne Sue Kastner

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Motivation in Late Learners of Japanese: Self-Determination Theory, Attitudes and Pronunciation , Shannon Guinn-Collins

Foreign Language Students' Beliefs about Homestays , Sara Racheal Juveland

Teaching Intonation Patterns through Reading Aloud , Micah William Park

Disordered Thought, Disordered Language: A corpus-based description of the speech of individuals undergoing treatment for schizophrenia , Lucas Carl Steuber

Emotion Language and Emotion Narratives of Turkish-English Late Bilinguals , Melike Yücel Koç

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

A Library and its Community: Exploring Perceptions of Collaboration , Phoebe Vincenza Daurio

A Structural and Functional Analysis of Codeswitching in Mi Vida Gitana 'My Gypsy Life,' a Bilingual Play , Gustavo Javier Fernandez

Writing Chinuk Wawa: A Materials Development Case Study , Sarah A. Braun Hamilton

Teacher Evaluation of Item Formats for an English Language Proficiency Assessment , Jose Luis Perea-Hernandez

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Building Community and Bridging Cultures: the Role of Volunteer Tutors in Oregon’s Latino Serving Community-Based Organizations , Troy Vaughn Hickman

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

Beyond the Classroom Walls: a Study of Out-Of-Class English Use by Adult Community College ESL Students , Tracey Louise Knight

Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004

A Dialect Study of Oregon NORMs , Lisa Wittenberg Hillyard

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

The Acquisition of a Stage Dialect , Nathaniel George Halloran

Self-perceptions of non-native English speaking teachers of English as a second language , Kathryn Ann Long

The Development of Language Choice in a German Immersion School , Miranda Kussmaul Novash

Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002

Writing in the Contact Zone: Three Portraits of Reflexivity and Transformation , Laurene L. Christensen

A Linguistic Evaluation of the Somali Women's Self Sufficiency Project , Ann Marie Kasper

Theses/Dissertations from 2001 2001

Attitudes at the Bank : A Survey of Reactions to Different Varieties of English , Sean Wilcox

Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000

A Comparison of the Child Directed Speech of Traditional Dads With That of Stay-At-Home Dads , Judith Nancarrow Barr

Error Correction Preferences of Latino ESL Students , John Burrell

The Relationship Between Chinese Character Recognition Strategies and the Success of Character Memorization for Students of Mandarin Chinese , Hui-yen Emmy Chen

Portland dialect study: the story of /æ/ in Portland , Jeffrey C. Conn

On Communicative Competence : Its Nature and Origin , Mary Lou Emerson

The Influence of Cultural Backgrounds on the Interpretations of Literature Texts Used in the ESL Classroom , Barbara Jostrom Gates

Chinese Numeratives and the Mass/Count Distinction , David Goodman

Learning, Motivation, and Self : A Diary Study of an ESL Teacher’s Year in a Japanese Language Classroom , Laura Ruth Hawks

Portland Dialect Study - High Rising Terminal Contours (HRTs) in Portland Speech , Rebecca A. Wolff

Theses/Dissertations from 1998 1998

The Bolinger Principle and Teaching the Gerunds and Infinitives , Anna Maria Baratta-Zborowski

Training for Volunteer Teachers in Church-Affiliated English Language Mission Programs , Janet Noreen Blackwood

Šawaš ılıˀ--šawaš wawa: A Participant Observation Case Study of Language Planning by the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon , Gregry Michael Davis

Phonological Processing of Japanese Kanji Characters , Randy L. Evans

Academic ESL Reading : Semantic Mapping and Lexical Acquisition , Jeffrey Darin Maggard

The Representation of Gender in Current ESL Reading Materials , Kyunghee Ma

Perception of English Passives by Japanese ESL Learners : Do Adversity Passives in L1 Transfer? , Koichi Sawasaki

Theses/Dissertations from 1997 1997

Non-Literate Students in Adult Beginning English as a Second Language Classrooms - A Case Study , Sandra Lynn Banke

A Case Study of Twelve Japanese ESL Students' Use of Interaction Modifications , Darin Dooley

The Home-School Connection: Parental Influences on a Child's ESL Acquisition , Catharine Jauhiainen

A Comparison of Two Second Language Acquisition Models for Culturally and Linguistically Different Students , Karen Dorothy Kuhn

ESL CD-ROM Principles and their Application: A Software Evaluation , Stephanie Burgi LaMonica

Developing a Language in Education Policy for Post-apartheid South Africa: A Case Study , Nancy Murray

Video Self-Monitoring as an Alternative to Traditional Methods of Pronunciation Instruction , P. C. Noble

Analysis of Rhetorical Organization and Style Patterns in Korean and American Business Fax Letters of Complaint in English , Mi Young Park

The Importance of Time for Processing in Second Language Comprehension and Acquisition , Jennifer Lee Watson

Theses/Dissertations from 1996 1996

The Constraints of a Typological Implicational Universal for Interrogatives on Second Language Acquisition , Dee Anne Bess

An Assessment of the Needs of International Students for Student Services at Southern Oregon State College , Molly K. Emmons

The relationship between a pre-departure training program and its participants' intercultural communication competence , Daniel Timothy Ferguson

An Exploratory Evaluation of Language and Culture Contact by Japanese Sojourners in a Short-term US Academic Program , Elizabeth Anna Hartley

Correction of Classroom Oral Errors: Preferences among University Students of English in Japan , Akemi Katayama

An Analysis of Japanese Learners' Comprehension of Intonation in English , Misako Okubo

An Evaluation of English Spoken Fluency of Thai Graduate Students in the United States , Sugunya Ruangjaroon

A Cross-cultural Study of the Speech Act of Refusing in English and German , Charla Margaret Teufel

Theses/Dissertations from 1995 1995

An Examination of the English Vocabulary Knowledge of Adult English-for-Academic-Purposes Students: Correlation with English Second-Language Proficiency and the Validity of Yes/No Vocabulary Tests , Robert Scott Fetter

English in the Workplace: Case Study of a Pilot Program , Kim Roth Franklin

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Theses from 2023 2023

The "Messy Middle": A Framework for Analyzing Raciolinguistic Inequity , Casey Erin Anthony

Japanese Reading Japlish: High School Students Study Their Own Fashion Linguistic Landscape , Gabriel Frost Johnson

Theses from 2021 2021

Meaning-Making Dynamics of Job Interview Performances , Jacquelyn K. Bertman

Theses from 2020 2020

Computerized Dynamic Assessment of Grammar in Second Language Development , Tina S. Randall

Limited Viewpoints: The Implementation of Multimodal Constructs in an ELL Model Curriculum Unit , Deborah A. Smith

Theses from 2019 2019

Adult Educators at the Crossroads of Language Learning and Workforce Development: A Qualitative Study of Teacher Agency , Liz Ging

Language Learning and ADA: An Observation of d/Deaf Adults and Their Interpreters in ESL Classrooms , Katharine M. Ward

Theses from 2017 2017

Languaging at Work: The Language Socialization of Support Staff in the Healthcare Workforce , Kristen E. Schlapp

Theses from 2016 2016

Performing Language and Identities: Adult Immigrant Students and the Creation of a Play , Kathleen R. McGovern

Theses from 2015 2015

Discourses and Capital in Court Trials: Representation of Witness Accounts and Identity , Misty Crooks

Theses from 2014 2014

What's in a Game? Identity Negotiations and Pedagogical Implications of Gameplay Discourse , Caleb Reed

Their Decision to Wear Al Hijab: The Stories of U.S. Northeastern Muslim Women , Hadeel Salman

Theses from 2012 2012

Meanings and Typologies of Duboisian Double Consciousness within 20th Century United States Racial Dynamics , Marc E. Black

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Theses from 2024 2024.

Diaspora Documentation of West Albay Bikol , Nhia Borja

What the Debate about Spanish Gender-Inclusive Forms Reveals Regarding Ideological Beliefs about Language and Authority , Jalitza Gutierrez

Consonant (De)gradation in Ingrian? , Andrea M. Harrison

Prosodic Marking of Focus in Autistic and Neurotypical Adults , Nishtha N. Trivedi

How Do We Learn What We Cannot Say? , Daniel Yakubov

Theses from 2023 2023

Applying Linguistics to the Adult ESOL Classroom: A Guide for ESOL Teachers in Community Centers , Lenore Costello

Towards Interpretable Machine Reading Comprehension with Mixed Effects Regression and Exploratory Prompt Analysis , Luca Del Signore

Neural Network vs. Rule-Based G2P: A Hybrid Approach to Stress Prediction and Related Vowel Reduction in Bulgarian , Maria Karamihaylova

Topics for He but not for She: Quantifying and Classifying Gender Bias in the Media , Tyler J. Lanni

Language of the Enemy: Impacts of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War on Linguistic and National Identity Paradigms in Ukraine , Julia Panter

A Sentiment Analysis of "Filipinx" on Twitter Using a Multinomial Naïve Bayes Classification Model , Clarisse Taboy

Pronunciation Ambiguities in Japanese Kanji , Wen Zhang

Theses from 2022 2022

The Realization of the Null Subject Parameter in Greek-American Children and Adults: Anaphora Resolution Patterns in Ambiguous Sentential Structures , Maria Elekidou

Does a Neural Network Inflect Spanish Verbs in a Human-Like Way? , Elizabeth Garza

A Study of Entrainment in Speech as a Possible Predictor of Perceived Trust , Mariana Graterol Fuenmayor

Gender-Informed Features of Film Reviews: A Statistical Linguistic Analysis , Matthew Kadish

A Machine Learning Approach to Text-Based Sarcasm Detection , Lara I. Novic

Covert Determiners in Appalachian English Narrative Declarative Sentences , William Oliver

From Sesame Street to Beyond: Multi-Domain Discourse Relation Classification with Pretrained BERT , Isaac R. Raff

Methods in Reverse Transliteration of English Loanwords in Japanese , Yuying Ren

Predicting Stress in Russian using Modern Machine-Learning Tools , John Schriner

Examining the Linguistic Ideology "Throaty Sounds Are Bad for Performers": The History of Negative Attitudes Towards Glottal Stops and Laryngealization in English , Dayle M. Towarnicky

Expanding the Pronominal Account of Tense: A Reexamination of the Double Access Reading in English , Brynne E. Wilkinson

Theses from 2021 2021

Evaluating the Role of Gender in Dementia-Related Language Deficiencies , Kelsey Bourque

Predicting Stock Price Movements Using Sentiment and Subjectivity Analyses , Andrew Kirby

From an Art to a Science: Features and Methodology in Computational Authorship Identification , Jonathan I. Manczur

The Production of Russian Vowels /i/ and /ɨ/ by Russian-English Bilingual Children , Evgeniya Maryutina

When Misclassification Is Misgendering: Gender Prediction in the Context of Trans Identities , Sean Miller

A Computational Study in the Detection of English–Spanish Code-Switches , Yohamy C. Polanco

Detection and Morphological Analysis of Novel Russian Loanwords , Yulia Spektor

Computational Representation of Russian Aspectual Morphology with a Focus on Perfective Prefixation , Natalia Tyulina

Theses from 2020 2020

From the Unspoken to the Verbalized: Different Ways of Communication and their Relationship to Culture in a Traditional Lakota Narrative "Ikto na wičhá ha kiŋ”, or “Ikto and the Racoon Skin” , Liliana R. Boladz-Nekipelov

Does the Word "Chien" Bark? Representation Learning in Neural Machine Translation Encoders , Emily Campbell

Processing Coercion in a First, Non-Dominant Language: Mandarin-English Heritage Bilinguals , Christina N. Dadurian

Doing Away With Defaults: Motivation for a Gradient Parameter Space , Katherine Howitt

Genderlects in Social Media , Alina Korovatskaya

Inferring Research Fields in Administrative Records Using Text Data , Ekaterina Levitskaya

Tones in Shupamem Reduplication , Magdalena Markowska

Cot in the Act: Ethnicity and Age Affects Phonemic Perception of the Low-Back Merger in New York City English , Omar Ortiz

Acquisition Orders and Instructional Sequences: A Case Study of Russian Textbooks , Olga Ozhiganova

On the Temporal Interpretation of Epistemic Modals: Evidence from Palestinian Arabic , Alaa M. Sharif

Testing the Perceptual Magnet Effect in Monolinguals and Bilinguals , Michael C. Stern

Phonologically-Informed Speech Coding for Automatic Speech Recognition-based Foreign Language Pronunciation Training , Anthony J. Vicario

Ghost Peppers: Using Ensemble Models to Detect Professor Attractiveness Commentary on RateMyProfessors.com , Angie Waller

Mitigating Gender Bias in Neural Machine Translation Using Counterfactual Data , Alan Wong

Knowledge of the Present Perfect by Albanian/English Bilinguals , Erjon Xholi

Analysis of PRO-drop Errors in L2 English by L1 Spanish Speakers , Marcos R. Ynoa

Theses from 2019 2019

The Effects of Language Background and Foreign Accent on Listening Comprehension , Sita Carraturo

Demographic Factors as Domains for Adaptation in Linguistic Preprocessing , Sara Morini

Generative Adversarial Networks and Word Embeddings for Natural Language Generation , Robert D. Schultz Jr

Heritage Speaker and Late Bilingual L2 Relative Clause Processing and Language Dominance Effects , LeeAnn S. Stevens

The Perception of Mandarin Tones in "Bubble" Noise by Native and L2 Listeners , Mengxuan Zhao

Theses from 2018 2018

Describing Doggo-Speak: Features of Doggo Meme Language , Jennifer Bivens

Purepecha Aspirated Consonants and Their Phonetic Variants , Lluvia Camacho Cervantes

The Social Perception of Three Features of New York City English , Giacomo Castronovo Jr.

Speech Perception in “Bubble” Noise: Korean Fricatives and Affricates By Native and Non-native Korean Listeners , Jiyoung Choi

English Influence on L2 Speakers’ Production of Palatalization and Velarization , Jennifer C. Gabriele

Recursive Neural Networks for Semantic Sentence Representation , Liam S. Geron

Input and Output in the Acquisition of Russian as a Heritage Language During the Third Year of Life , Ekaterina V. Kistanova

Intergroup Variability in Personality Recognition , Arundhati Sengupta

Revisiting Lockhart: A Case for a Conditional Operator , Eric J. Tsai

Theses from 2017 2017

Aspects of Quantifier Float in Thai , Khanin Chaiphet

Spatial Prepositions in Spanish , Carolina Fraga

From Rochel to Rose and Mendel to Max: First Name Americanization Patterns Among Twentieth-Century Jewish Immigrants to the United States , Jason H. Greenberg

A Sentiment Analysis of Language & Gender Using Word Embedding Models , Ellyn Rolleston Keith

Contesting Victimhood: A Linguistic and Legal Anthropological Analysis of Defendant Experiences in New York’s Human Trafficking Intervention Courts , Mark T. Romig

ES-ESA: An Information Retrieval Prototype Using Explicit Semantic Analysis and Elasticsearch , Brian D. Sloan

A Discussion of Delimitative in Mandarin Chinese , Qi Zhang

Theses from 2016 2016

Infixer: A Method for Segmenting Non-Concatenative Morphology in Tagalog , Steven R. Butler

Processing Filler-Gap Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese: An Effect of Language Exposure? , Stanley Chen

Nondescript: A Web Tool to Aid Subversion of Authorship Attribution , Robin Davis

Utilizing Linguistic Context To Improve Individual and Cohort Identification in Typed Text , Adam Goodkind

An Evaluation of POS Taggers for the CHILDES Corpus , Rui Huang

Event Parsing In Narrative: Trials And Tribulations Of Archaic English Fairy Tales , Rebecca Lovering

An ERP Study of Sensory-Linguistic Processing in the Context of ASD Research , Larissa R. Miller

An Examination of Cross-Domain Authorship Attribution Techniques , Maxwell B. Schwartz

Voicing the Other: Mock AAVE on Social Media , Hanna L. Smokoski

Theses from 2015 2015

/n/:/r/ Correspondences in Albanian Dialects: Understanding the n>r Sound Change , Katie Albany

Techniques for Automatic Normalization of Orthographically Variant Yiddish Texts , Yakov Peretz Blum

Vocabulary Through Affixes and Word Families - A Computer-Assisted Language Learning Program for Adult ELL Students , Magdalena Kieliszek

Syntactic Constraints and Social Uses of Greek-English Intrasentential Codeswitching , Despina Stefanou Malliaroudakis

Obstruent Voicing and Tone in Siklis Gurung , Danielle Ronkos

The Incidence and Evolution of Palatalized Consonants in Latvian , Linda Zalite

Theses from 2014 2014

The Influence of Pseudo-relatives on Attachment Preferences in Spanish , David Branco-Moreno

The Inner Workings of Text Summarization Systems , Hope Cotton

HUU-FA THESIS DAT?: A Syntactic Analysis of Possessive Jamaican Creole Possessive WH-elements , Toni Ashlie Foster

Canvas: A fast and accurate geometric sentence alignment system using lexical cues within complex misalignment settings , Hussein M. Ghaly

Representational Implications of the Phonologization of Contour Tones , Benjamin Kirkland Macaulay

Echolocation: Using Word-Burst Analysis to Rescore Keyword Search Candidates in Low-Resource Languages , Justin Richards

Some complexities in English article use and acquisition , Victoria Somogyi

Understanding Doubly Center-Embedded Sentences Through Contrastive Focus , Ashley Caroline Thorne

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Angsongna, Alexander (PhD) Aspects of the morphophonology of Dagaare

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Oliveira Salles, Raiane (PhD) Functional categorization parameters : argumenthood with functional heads other than D in Carioca Brazilian Portuguese and Pirahã

Soo, Rachel (PhD) Perception, recognition, and encoding of Cantonese sound change variants

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Tkachman, Oksana (PhD) Embodiment and emergent phonology in the visual-manual modality : factors enabling sublexical componentiality

Lo, Roger (Yu-Hsiang) (PhD) Post-stop fundamental frequency perturbation in production and perception of Mandarin stop voicing  

Anghelescu, Andrei (PhD) Prosodic phonology in Nata

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Guntly, Erin Alisa (PhD) ‘Yeah, I doubt it.’ ‘No, it’s true.’ How paradoxical responses impact the common ground

Akinbo, Samuel Kayode (PhD) Vowel harmony and some related processes in Fungwa

Aonuki, Yurika (MA) Relative pronominal tense: Evidence from Gitksan, Japanese, and English

Bosurgi, Alexandra (MA) Reexamining gender stereotype effects in speech processing : a replication of Strand (2000)

Johnson, Khia Anne (PhD) Crosslinguistic similarity and structured variation in Cantonese-English bilingual speech production

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Osa Gómez del Campo, Adriana (PhD) Epistemic (mis)alignment in discourse : what Spanish discourse markers reveal

Fry, Michael David (PhD) Grammaticus ex machina: Tone inventories as hypothesized by machine

Keupdjio, Hermann Sidoine (PhD) The syntax of A′-dependencies in Bamileke Medumba

Amoako, Wendy Kwakye (MA) Assessing phonological development among Akan-speaking children

Weber, Natalie (PhD) Syntax, prosody, and metrical structure in Blackfoot

2019 Alumni

Crippen, James A. (PhD) The syntax in Tlingit verbs

Gambarage, Joash Johannes (PhD) Belief-of-existence determiners: Evidence from the syntax and semantics of Nata augments

Heim, Johannes M. (PhD) Commitment and engagement: The role of intonation in deriving speech acts

Keough, Megan (PhD) The role of prior experience in the integration of aerotactile speech information

Ozburn, Avery (PhD) A target-oriented approach to neutrality in vowel harmony

Yuan, Yifang (MA) Response markers in Mandarin Chinese conversation: A corpus-based case study of shi, dui, xing, hao and the variants of shi

2018 Alumni

Black, Alexis K. (PhD) How perception constrains statistical learning across development

Chen, Sihwei (PhD) Finding semantic building blocks: Temporal and modal interpretation in Atayal

Lam, Wai Man (PhD) Perception of lexical tones by homeland and heritage speakers of Cantonese

de Oliveira Andreotti, Bruno Luis (MA) Interpreting derived stative predicates: Evidence from ʔayʔaǰuθəm

2017 Alumni

Burge, Heather (MA) Prospective aspect in Tlingit

Mackie, James Scott (PhD) Simulating the evolution of consonant inventories

McClay, Elise Kedersha (MA) Focus in Ktunaxa: Word order and prosody

Stelle, Elizabeth Leigh (PhD) Visual feedback during speech production

Thoma, Sonja Christine (PhD) Discourse particles and the syntax of discourse: Evidence from Miesbach Bavarian

2016 Alumni

Allen, Blake H. (PhD) Bayesian models of learning and generating inflectional morphology

Fund-Reznicek, Ella (MA) Communication and coordination between singers performing duets

Glougie, Jennifer Robin Sarah (PhD) The semantic and pragmatics of English evidential expressions: The expression of evidentiality in police interviews

Littell, Patrick William (PhD) Focus, predication, and polarity in Kwak’wala

McMullin, Kevin James (PhD) Tier-based locality in long-distance phonotactics: learnability and typology

Moewaki, Ayako (MA) Quantifiers in Kwak’wala

Noguchi, Masaki (PhD) Acquisition of allophony from speech input by adult learners

2015 Alumni

Abel, Jennifer Colleen (PhD) The effect of task difficulty on speech convergence

Bicevskis, Katie (MA)

Visual-tactile integration and individual differences in speech perception

Božič, Jurij (MA)

Spell-out of phonological domains: the case of Slovenian

Chiu, Cheng-hao (PhD)

Startling auditory stimulus as a window into speech motor planning

Gutiérrez, Analía (PhD)

Segmental and prosodic complexity in Nivaĉle: laryngeals, laterals, and metathesis

Liu, Tianhan (MA)

Modal concord in Mandarin

Louie, Meagan (PhD)

The temporal semantics of actions and circumstance in Blackfoot

McAuliffe, Michael (PhD)

Attention and salience in lexically-guided perceptual learning

Toews, Carmela Irene Penner (PhD)

Topics in Siamou tense and aspect

2014 Alumni

D’Aquisto, Joseph Paul (MA)

Visual discrimination of French and English in inter-speech and speech-ready position

Dunham, Joel Robert William (PhD)

The online linguistic database : software for linguistic fieldwork

Fuhrman, Robert (MA)

Vocal effort and within-speaker coordination in speech production : effects on postural control

Sherer, Laura (MA)

Nominalization and voice in Kwak’wala

Vincent, Audra (MA)

Coeur d’Alene Aspect

2013 Alumni

Bliss, Heather (PhD)

The Blackfoot configurationality conspiracy: parallels and differences in clausal and nominal structures

Greene, Hannah (MA)

Verb classes in Kwaḱwala

Lyon, John (PhD)

Predication and equation in Okanagan Salish: the syntax and semantics of determiner phrases

Menzies, Stacey (MA)

Nsyilxcen modality: semantic analysis of epistemic modality

Schellenberg, Murray Henry (PhD)

The realization of tone in singing in Cantonese and Mandarin

Yamane, Noriko (PhD)

‘Placeless’ consonants in Japanese: an ultrasound investigation

2012 Alumni

Scott, Mark (PhD)

Speech imagery as corollary discharge

Szakay, Anita (PhD)

The effect of dialect on bilingual lexical processing and representation

Thompson, James J. (PhD)

Syntactic nominalization in Halkomelem Salish

Waldie, Ryan James (PhD)

Evidentiality in Nuu-chah-nulth

2011 Alumni

Arkoh, Ruby Becky (MA)

Semantics of Akan bi and nʊ

Armoskaite, Solveiga (PhD)

The Destiny of Roots in Blackfoot and Lithuanian

Christodoulou, Christiana (PhD)

Cypriot Greek Down syndrome: their grammar and its interfaces

Derrick, Donald (PhD)

Kinematic patterning of flaps, taps and rhotics in English

Fujimori, Atsushi (PhD)

The correspondence between vowel quality and verbal telicity in Yamato-Japanese

Jacobs, Peter (PhD)

Control in Skwxwu7mesh

Jóhannsdóttir, Kristín M. (PhD)

Aspects of the progressive in English and Icelandic

Sterian, Laura Andreea (MA)

The syntax and semantics of gap and resumptive strategies in Iraqi Arabic D-linked content questions

2010 Alumni

Chávez-Peón, Mario (PhD)

The interaction of metrical structure, tone, and phonation types in Quiaviní Zapotec

Hudu, Fusheini (PhD)

Dagbani tongue-root harmony: a formal account with ultrasound investigation

Mudzingwa, Calisto (PhD)

Shona morphophonemics: repair strategies in Karanga and Zezuru

Peterson, Tyler (PhD)

Epistemic modality and evidentiality in Gitksan at the semantics-pragmatics interface

2009 Alumni

Caldecott, Marion (PhD)

Non-exhaustive parsing: phonetic and phonological evidence from St’át’imcets

Ferch, Elizabeth (MA)

Number and the scope of indefinites

2008 Alumni

Brown, Jason (PhD)

Theoretical aspects of Gitksan phonology

Cook, Clare (PhD)

The syntax and semantics of clause-typing in Plains Cree

Kiyota, Masaru (PhD)

Situation aspect and viewpoint aspect: from Salish to Japanese

Koch, Karsten (PhD)

Intonation and Focus in Nɬeʔkepmxcin (Thompson River Salish)

Mühlbauer, Jeffrey (PhD)

kâ-yôskâtahk ôma nêhiyawêwin: the representation of intentionality in Plains Cree

Steriopolo, Olga (PhD)

Form and function of expressive morphology: a case study of Russian

2007 Alumni

Barczak, Leszek (MA)

Towards an analysis of Yorùbá conditionals: its implications for the phrase structure

2006 Alumni

Ajíbóyè, Ọládiípọ̀ (PhD)

Topics on Yorùbá nominal expressions

Bar-el, Leora (PhD)

Aspectual distinctions in Sk̲wx̲wú7mesh

Gillon, Carrie (PhD)

The semantics of determiners domain restriction in Sk̲wx̲wú7mesh

Namdaran, Nahal (MA)

Retraction in St’át’imcets: an ultrasonic investigation

Picanço, Gessiane L. (PhD)

Mundurukú phonetics, phonology, synchrony, diachrony

Wilson, Ian (PhD)

Articulatory settings of French and English monolingual and bilingual speakers

2005 Alumni

Campbell, Fiona (MA)

The gestural organization of North American English /r/: a study of timing and magnitude

Oh, Sunyoung (PhD)

Articulatory characteristics of English /l/ in speech development

Perkins, Jeremy (MA)

The RTR harmonic domain in two dialects of Yorùbá

Quis, Dominique (MA)

The voice of a forgotten people: on the reconstructed etymology of the Beothuk (Shawthrut) self-designation sakanak ‘red indian people’

Ravinski, Christine (MA)

Grammatical possession in Nuu-chah-nulth

Ruangjaroon, Sugunya (PhD)

The syntax of WH-expressions as variables in Thai

Wojdak, Rachel (PhD)

The linearization of affixes: evidence from Nuu-chah-nulth

2004 Alumni

Jones, Susan (MA)

Progressive aspect and distributively quantified objects: a semantic/pragmatic account

McDowell, Ramona E. (MA)

Retraction in Montana Salish lateral consonants

Shank, Scott (PhD)

Domain widening

Shiobara, Kayono (PhD)

Linearization: a derivational approach to the syntax-prosody interface

2003 Alumni

Gessner, Suzanne (PhD)

The prosodic system of the Dakelh (Carrier) language

Gormley, Andrea (MA)

The production of consonant harmony in child speech

Kalmar, Michele (MA)

Patterns of reduplication in Kwak’wala

Kim, Eun-Sook (PhD)

Theoretical issues in Nuu-Chah-Nulth phonology and morphology

2002 Alumni

Baptiste, Maxine R. (MA)

Okanagan wh-questions

Kim, Soomee (MA)

Aspirates in Korean: perspectives on coalescence, CK, and gemination

2001 Alumni

Blake, Susan J. (PhD)

On the distribution and representation of schwa in Sliammon (Salish): descriptive and theoretical perspectives

Glougie, Jennifer (MA)

Topics in the syntax and semantics of Blackfoot quantifiers and nominals

Hirose, Tomio (PhD)

Origins of predicates evidence from Plains Cree

Howe, Darin M. (PhD)

Oowekyala segmental phonology

Rosen, Eric (PhD)

Phonological processes interacting with the lexicon: variable and non-regular effects in Japanese phonology

2000 Alumni

Kaneko, Ikuyo (MA)

A metrical analysis of Blackfoot nominal accent in optimality theory

Strauss, Uri (MA)

Phrase structure and verb movement in Hebrew and English imperatives

1999 Alumni

Bob, Tanya (MA)

Laryngeal phenomena in Tahltan

Caldecott, Marion (MA)

A comparison of glottalized resonants in Sənčaθən and St’át’imcets

Gessner, Suzanne (MA)

Laryngeal processes in Chipewyan and other Athapaskan languages

Nakamura, Yumiko (MA)

The syntax of possessor raising

1998 Alumni

Bar-El, Leora (MA)

Verbal plurality and adverbial quantification a case study of Sk̲wx̲ú7mesh (Squamish Salish)

Horseherder, Nicole (MA)

Binding-theoretic analysis of Navajo possessor YI-

Lai, I-Ju Sandra (MA)

The grammar and acquisition of Secwepemctsín independent pronouns

Suzuki, Takeru (PhD)

A theory of lexical functors light heads in the lexicon and the syntax

Uechi, Akihiko (PhD)

An interface approach to topic/focus structure

1997 Alumni

Blain, Eleanor M. (PhD)

Wh-constructions in Nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree)

Chang, Lisa (MA)

Wh-in-situ phenomena in French

Currie, Elizabeth J. (MA)

Topic time: the syntax and semantics of SqwXwu7mish temporal adverbials

Leitch, Myles F. (PhD)

Vowel harmonies of the Congo Basin: an optimality theory analysis of variation in the Bantu zone C

Li, J. Cora R. (MA)

Bei and the passive in Cantonese

Sanchez, Monica (PhD)

Syntactic features in agrammatic production

Shahin, Kimary (PhD)

Postvelar harmony an examination of its bases and crosslinguistic variation

Turkel, William J. (MA)

On triggered learning

1996 Alumni

Jiang-King, Ping (PhD)

An optimality account of tone-vowel interaction in Northern Min

Matthewson, Lisa (PhD)

Determiner systems and quantificational strategies evidence from Salish

Rosen, Eric (MA)

The postposing construction in Japanese

1995 Alumni

Ọla, Ọlanikẹ (PhD)

Optimality in Benue-Congo prosodic phonology and morphology

Qu, Yanfeng (PhD)

Object noun phrase dislocation in Mandarin Chinese

Thompson, William (MA)

Paradigms and the acquisition of agreement morphology in German

Valerga, Vanessa N. (MA)

Phonological representation of Spanish vibrants

1994 Alumni

Choi, Sohee (MA)

Korean vowel harmony: an optimality account

Howett, Catherine (MA)

On the classification of predicates in Nłe?képmx (Thompson River Salish)

Jimmie, Mandy N. (MA)

A prosodic analysis of Nłek̉epmx reduplication

Li, Erica Wen (MA)

Passives in Mandarin Chinese

Roberts, Taylor (MA)

Subject and topic in St’át’imcets (Lillooet Salish)

1993 Alumni

Bessell, Nicola J. (PhD)

Towards a phonetic and phonological typology of post-velar articulation

Hunt, Katharine D. (PhD)

Clause structure, agreement and case in Gitksan

1992 Alumni

Blake, Susan J. (MA)

Two aspects of Sliammon (ɬáʔamɪnqən) phonology: glide/obstruent alternation and vowel length

Millard, David (MA)

The prosodic structure of Finnish and the theory of phonological government

1991 Alumni

Fee, E. Jane (PhD)

Underspecification, parameters, and the acquisition of vowels

1990 Alumni

Remnant, Daphne E. (MA)

Tongue root articulations: a case study of Lillooet

1988 Alumni

Andrews, Christina (MA)

Lexical phonology of Chilcotin

Bagemihl, Bruce (PhD)

Alternate phonologies and morphologies

Paradis, Johanne C. (MA)

The syllable structure of Japanese

1987 Alumni

Davis, Henry (PhD)

The acquisition of the English auxiliary system and its relation to linguistic theory

1986 Alumni

Nakata, Masahiko (MA)

Verbal compounds in Japanese: implications for morphological theory

Roberge, Yves (PhD)

The syntactic recoverability of null arguments

1985 Alumni

Elesseily, Nagat H. (MA)

Subject extraction from embedded clauses in standard Arabic

Ross, Martin (MA)

Japanese lexical phonology and morphology

1984 Alumni

Belvin, Robert S. (MA)

Nisgha syntax and the ergativity hypothesis

Thompson, Wendy (MA)

Reduplication in Nisgha

1982 Alumni

Hébert, Yvonne M. (PhD)

Transitivity in (Nicola Lake) Okanagan

Tse, Sou-Mee (PhD)

The acquisition of Cantonese phonology

1981 Alumni

Preuss, Renate Jutta (MA)

Colour naming in young children

1980 Alumni

Chan, Marjorie K.M. (MA)

Zhong-shan Phonology: A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of a Yue (Cantonese) Dialect

Fee, E. Jane (MA)

The relationship between mothers’ pronominal modifications and children’s acquisition of pronominal reference

Morgan, Lawrence R. (MA)

Kootenay-Salishan linguistic comparison : a preliminary study

1979 Alumni

Suzuki, Yoshiko (MA)

Directional verbs in English and Japanese

Woods, Howard B. (PhD)

A socio-dialectology survey of the English spoken in Ottawa: a study of sociological and stylistic variation in Canadian English

1978 Alumni

Pattison, Lois Cornelia (MA)

Douglas Lake Okanagan: phonology and morphology

Placzek, James Anthony (MA)

Classifiers in standard Thai : a study of semantic relations between headwords and classifiers

1977 Alumni

de Wolf, Gaelan (MA)

Tlingit phonology in a generative framework : an examination of phonological processes and abstract representation

Gerdts, Donna B. (MA)

Dialect survey of Halkomelem Salish

Nokony, Alicia Alexander (MA)

Meaning development in one child acquiring Dakota-Sioux as a first language

1976 Alumni

Gibson, Deborah Jean (MA)

A thesis on eh

Sándi, Gábor (MA)

The phonology of the dialects of England

Stevenson, Roberta C. (MA)

The pronunciation of English in British Columbia : an analysis of the responses to the phonological section of the Linguistic Survey of B. C., Postal Questionnaire (PQ3)

Wigod, Rebecca (MA)

The matter of metaphor and its importance for linguistics

1975 Alumni

Hawes, Lorna Joy (MA)

Some theories of language typology and language change

Matsuda, Hiroshi (MA)

A transformational study of Japanese reflexivization

1974 Alumni

Beckett, Eleanor (MA)

A linguistic analysis of Gurma

Machado-Holsti, Mina Estrela (MA)

Generative-transformational sketch of Portuguese syntax : a computer model

Ogawa, Toshimitsu Augustine (MA)

Study of Japanese relativization

1973 Alumni

Davison, Annie Souren (MA)

Interrogatives, negation and linguistic play in three children acquiring French as a first language

Powell, Mava Jo (MA)

Semantic analysis of ‘because’

1972 Alumni

Morshed, Abul Kalam Manzur (MA)

The phonological, morphological and syntactical patterns of standard colloquial Bengali and the Noakhali dialect

1971 Alumni

Ogawa, Nobuo (MA)

On the Japanese passive form

Swoboda, Leo John (MA)

Lillooet phonology, texts and dictionary

1969 Alumni

Kenwood, Christopher Michael (MA)

A study of slang and informal usage in the newspaper

1967 Alumni

Olaya, Norma Peralta (MA)

A phonological grammar of a dialect of Ilokano

Peralta-Pineda, Ponciano Bendiola (MA)

Tagalog transformational syntax : a preliminary statement

Staume, Guido (MA)

A glottochronological analysis of Latvian and Russian

Tan, Evangeline K. (MA)

The phonology of Tausug : a descriptive analysis

Yap, Fe Aldave (MA)

Synchronic analysis of Tagalog phonemes

Neural Representation Learning in Linguistic Structured Prediction

 Advances in neural network architectures and training algorithms have demonstrated the effectiveness of representation learning in natural language processing. This thesis argues for the importance of modeling discrete structure in language, even when learning continuous representations. 

We propose that explicit structure representations and learned distributed representations can be efficiently combined for improved performance over (i) traditional approaches to structure and (ii) uninformed neural networks that ignore all but surface sequential structure. We demonstrate, on three distinct problems, how assumptions about structure can be integrated naturally into neural representation learners for NLP problems, without sacrificing computational efficiency. 

First, we propose segmental recurrent neural networks (SRNNs) which define, given an input sequence, a joint probability distribution over segmentations of the input and labelings of the segments and show that, compared to models that do not explicitly represent segments such as BIO tagging schemes and connectionist temporal classification (CTC), SRNNs obtain substantially higher accuracies on tasks including phone recognition and handwriting recognition. 

Second, we propose dynamic recurrent acyclic graphical neural networks (DRAGNN), a modular neural architecture that generalizes the encoder/decoder concept to include explicit linguistic structures. Linguistic structures guide the building process of the neural networks by following the transitions and encoding the (partial) structures constructed those transitions explicitly into the hidden layer activations. We show that our framework is significantly more accurate and efficient than sequence-to-sequence with attention for syntactic dependency parsing and yields more accurate multi-task learning for extractive summarization tasks. 

Third, we propose to use discrete stochastic attention to model the alignment structures explicitly in the neural sequence-to-sequence translation model. We regularize the posterior distributions of the latent alignment decisions using the posteriors computed from models that make stronger independence assumptions but that have the same latent variables. We show that our posterior regularization scheme leads to substantially improved generalization. Since the posterior regularization objective can be generally expensive to compute, we propose several approximations based on importance sampling and find that they are either as good as or better than the exact objective in terms of held-out generalization. 

The techniques proposed in this thesis automatically learn structurally informed representations of the inputs. Linguistically motivated inductive biases help learning better representations in the neural models and these representations and components can be better integrated with other end-to-end deep learning systems within and beyond NLP.  

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Senior Tutorial Linguistics 99 is a full course intended for the researching and writing of an honors thesis, under the supervision of a faculty member. (Recall furthermore that Honors students are expected to begin exploring possible thesis topics during Linguistics 98b , the spring semester Junior Year Tutorial.) Final responsibility for assigning the thesis advisor rests with the Director of Undergraduate Studies, although every effort is made to accommodate students’ wishes in this respect.

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The deadline for submission of the senior thesis is 5 p.m. on the last weekday before the beginning of spring recess. Extensions are granted only under the most extreme circumstances.

The thesis should be submitted in PDF format via email to both the Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Assistant Head Tutor. No hard copy is required for submission.

Once grades have been assigned, any thesis receiving a Summa or Magna grade must be printed and given to the Assistant Head Tutor for submiss ion to the Harvard Archives. The thesis should be printed one-sided on 8½” x 11” paper that is acid-free, alkaline-buffered, and durable (available at any office supply or print/copy services store). The left margin should be set at 1.5 inches and the right, top, and bottom margins should be set at one inch. The thesis must be unbound.

The thesis should be roughly 50-70 pages. Although many students find it more difficult to produce a coherent, concise study than a longer, less carefully-edited version, the former is strongly encouraged.

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• Table of Contents:  A list of the names of chapters with the appropriate page numbers.
• Abstract: A one-page synopsis of the problem addressed, providing the context of the research as well as the conclusion and possible implications.
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Title each section and subsection (if applicable). At the beginning of each major discussion, tell the reader what the section is about. Examples that illustrate your description, as well as derivations that illustrate your analysis, are extremely useful; often a single example can be clearer than pages of difficult exposition. Number the examples. Give titles to formal rules (“Rule 51” does not provide the reader with much information when it is referred to 20 pages later), and when you give a formal rule, always give an informal prose description as well. Tables to organize results are also very useful.

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A Summa thesis should be both original/creative and technically superb. It is generally equivalent to or better than what one would expect from an M.A. thesis.

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A Magna thesis should be a solid piece of work although it may lack somewhat in originality. Magnas have sometimes been awarded because the thesis clearly reflects an enormous amount of work, even though the results may be somewhat disappointing. A Magna generally corresponds to an A/A-, while a Summa corresponds to an A+.  

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Recent BA Theses

Since 2008, undergraduate theses submitted by B.A. and B.S. recipients at the university are published online in the OSU KnowledgeBank Collection of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Theses and Honors Research Theses . This page is currently under construction. When it is finished, it will list each of the theses submitted by recipients of the B.A. in Linguistics to the KnowledgeBank Collection, along with a link to the DOI and information about what the B.A. recipient did with the degree.

Michael Sullivan

A Nondeterministically Enumerated Categorial Grammar analysis of Croatian and English passive constructions. Advisors: Bob Levine and Andrea Sims

Michelle McKenzie

Effects of relative frequency on morphological processing in Russian and English. Advisor: Andrea Sims

Bethany Toma

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Right Dislocation: Odd thing, that  Advisors: Judith Tonhauser and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe

Megan Dailey

Dialect Classification and Speech Intelligibility in Noise  Advisor: Cynthia Clopper

Alyssa Nelson

Comparison of vowel acoustics in children from the Northern, Midland, and Southern regions of the United States  Advisor: Cynthia Clopper

Erin Walpole

Free-classification of American dialects in three conditions: natural, monotonized, and low-pass filtered speech  Advisor: Cynthia Clopper

Daven Hobbs

Dravidian’s influence on Indo-Aryan: The case of the dative-subject construction Advisors:  Brian Joseph and Don Winford

Shannon Melvin

Gender variation in creaky voice and fundamental frequency Advisor: Cynthia Clopper

Christine Prechtel

Effects of gender and regional dialect on uptalk in the American Midwest Advisor: Cynthia Clopper

Erin Luthern

Variation in glottalization at prosodic boundaries in clear and plain lab speech Advisor: Cynthia Clopper

The homophone dffect in Mandarin word recognition Advisors: Kiwako Ito and Shari Speer

Vicki Lynn Krebs

An articulatory and acoustic description of word initial and word medial fricatives and approximants in Mangetti Dune !Xung Advisor: Amanda Miller

Effects of Regional Dialect on Word-Final Consonant Voicing Advisor: Cynthia Clopper

Mary Kathryn Bauer

Twang and slang: Regional Origin and Perceptual Dialectology in Ohio Advisor: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler

Amber Torelli

Perceptual Dialectology in Ohio Advisor: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler

Kristen Scudieri

On the perception of /s/ and /ʃ/: considering the effects of phonotactics Advisors: Elizabeth Hume and Cynthia Clopper

Chanelle Mays

Gender differences in Japanese and English "s" versus "sh" Advisor: Mary Beckman

Extending Phone Prediction Models of Word Segmentation to a More Realistic Representation of Prosody Committee: Chris Brew (advisor), Mary Beckman, and Eric Fosler-Lussier John Pate also received an MA from our Linguistics program before going on to earn a PhD at the University of Edinburgh

Terrin Tamati

Effects of dialect and talker variability on lexical recognition memory Advisor: Cynthia Clopper After earning her BA, Terrin Tamati entered the doctoral program at Indiana University

Differential Object Marking in Paraguayan Guaraní Advisor: Peter Culicover and Judith Tonhauser After earning his MA in linguistics, Cory Shain studied French, Spanish, and cognitive modeling before returning to OSU in 2016 to enter the doctoral program in Linguistics.

Ross Metusalem

The Role of Pitch Accent in Discourse Construction Advisor: Kiwako Ito Ross Metusalem also received an MA from our Linguistics program before becoming a doctoral student at the University of California, San Diego

Erika Colijn

Word Order in Paraguayan Guaraní Advisor: Judith Tonhauser

Jon Stevens

The Old English Demonstrative: A Synchronic and Diachronic Investigation Advisors: Brian Joseph and Craige Roberts Jon Stevens also received an MA from our Linguistics program before going on to earn his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania

Nadia El-Yousseph

Sex and Size: The Influence of Grammatical Gender on Object Perception in English and German Advisors: Kathryn Corl and Shari Speer

Katherine Woznicki

An Acoustic Analysis of Word Prosody in Ljubljana Slovene Advisor: Mary Beckman

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211 Research Topics in Linguistics To Get Top Grades

Many people find it hard to decide on their linguistics research topics because of the assumed complexities involved. They struggle to choose easy research paper topics for English language too because they think it could be too simple for a university or college level certificate.

All that you need to learn about Linguistics and English is sprawled across syntax, phonetics, morphology, phonology, semantics, grammar, vocabulary, and a few others. To easily create a top-notch essay or conduct a research study, you can consider this list of research topics in English language below for your university or college use. Note that you can fine-tune these to suit your interests.

Linguistics Research Paper Topics

If you want to study how language is applied and its importance in the world, you can consider these Linguistics topics for your research paper. They are:

• An analysis of romantic ideas and their expression amongst French people
• An overview of the hate language in the course against religion
• Identify the determinants of hate language and the means of propagation
• Evaluate a literature and examine how Linguistics is applied to the understanding of minor languages
• Consider the impact of social media in the development of slangs
• An overview of political slang and its use amongst New York teenagers
• Examine the relevance of Linguistics in a digitalized world
• Analyze foul language and how it’s used to oppress minors
• Identify the role of language in the national identity of a socially dynamic society
• Attempt an explanation to how the language barrier could affect the social life of an individual in a new society
• Discuss the means through which language can enrich cultural identities
• Examine the concept of bilingualism and how it applies in the real world
• Analyze the possible strategies for teaching a foreign language
• Discuss the priority of teachers in the teaching of grammar to non-native speakers
• Choose a school of your choice and observe the slang used by its students: analyze how it affects their social lives
• Attempt a critical overview of racist languages
• What does endangered language means and how does it apply in the real world?
• A critical overview of your second language and why it is a second language
• What are the motivators of speech and why are they relevant?
• Analyze the difference between the different types of communications and their significance to specially-abled persons
• Give a critical overview of five literature on sign language
• Evaluate the distinction between the means of language comprehension between an adult and a teenager
• Consider a native American group and evaluate how cultural diversity has influenced their language
• Analyze the complexities involved in code-switching and code-mixing
• Give a critical overview of the importance of language to a teenager
• Attempt a forensic overview of language accessibility and what it means
• What do you believe are the means of communications and what are their uniqueness?
• Attempt a study of Islamic poetry and its role in language development
• Attempt a study on the role of Literature in language development
• Evaluate the Influence of metaphors and other literary devices in the depth of each sentence
• Identify the role of literary devices in the development of proverbs in any African country
• Cognitive Linguistics: analyze two pieces of Literature that offers a critical view of perception
• Identify and analyze the complexities in unspoken words
• Expression is another kind of language: discuss
• Identify the significance of symbols in the evolution of language
• Discuss how learning more than a single language promote cross-cultural developments
• Analyze how the loss of a mother tongue affect the language Efficiency of a community
• Critically examine how sign language works
• Using literature from the medieval era, attempt a study of the evolution of language
• Identify how wars have led to the reduction in the popularity of a language of your choice across any country of the world
• Critically examine five Literature on why accent changes based on environment
• What are the forces that compel the comprehension of language in a child
• Identify and explain the difference between the listening and speaking skills and their significance in the understanding of language
• Give a critical overview of how natural language is processed
• Examine the influence of language on culture and vice versa
• It is possible to understand a language even without living in that society: discuss
• Identify the arguments regarding speech defects
• Discuss how the familiarity of language informs the creation of slangs
• Explain the significance of religious phrases and sacred languages
• Explore the roots and evolution of incantations in Africa

Sociolinguistic Research Topics

You may as well need interesting Linguistics topics based on sociolinguistic purposes for your research. Sociolinguistics is the study and recording of natural speech. It’s primarily the casual status of most informal conversations. You can consider the following Sociolinguistic research topics for your research:

• What makes language exceptional to a particular person?
• How does language form a unique means of expression to writers?
• Examine the kind of speech used in health and emergencies
• Analyze the language theory explored by family members during dinner
• Evaluate the possible variation of language based on class
• Evaluate the language of racism, social tension, and sexism
• Discuss how Language promotes social and cultural familiarities
• Give an overview of identity and language
• Examine why some language speakers enjoy listening to foreigners who speak their native language
• Give a forensic analysis of his the language of entertainment is different to the language in professional settings
• Give an understanding of how Language changes
• Examine the Sociolinguistics of the Caribbeans
• Consider an overview of metaphor in France
• Explain why the direct translation of written words is incomprehensible in Linguistics
• Discuss the use of language in marginalizing a community
• Analyze the history of Arabic and the culture that enhanced it
• Discuss the growth of French and the influences of other languages
• Examine how the English language developed and its interdependence on other languages
• Give an overview of cultural diversity and Linguistics in teaching
• Challenge the attachment of speech defect with disability of language listening and speaking abilities
• Explore the uniqueness of language between siblings
• Explore the means of making requests between a teenager and his parents
• Observe and comment on how students relate with their teachers through language
• Observe and comment on the communication of strategy of parents and teachers
• Examine the connection of understanding first language with academic excellence

Language Research Topics

Numerous languages exist in different societies. This is why you may seek to understand the motivations behind language through these Linguistics project ideas. You can consider the following interesting Linguistics topics and their application to language:

• What does language shift mean?
• Discuss the stages of English language development?
• Examine the position of ambiguity in a romantic Language of your choice
• Why are some languages called romantic languages?
• Observe the strategies of persuasion through Language
• Discuss the connection between symbols and words
• Identify the language of political speeches
• Discuss the effectiveness of language in an indigenous cultural revolution
• Trace the motivators for spoken language
• What does language acquisition mean to you?
• Examine three pieces of literature on language translation and its role in multilingual accessibility
• Identify the science involved in language reception
• Interrogate with the context of language disorders
• Examine how psychotherapy applies to victims of language disorders
• Study the growth of Hindi despite colonialism
• Critically appraise the term, language erasure
• Examine how colonialism and war is responsible for the loss of language
• Give an overview of the difference between sounds and letters and how they apply to the German language
• Explain why the placement of verb and preposition is different in German and English languages
• Choose two languages of your choice and examine their historical relationship
• Discuss the strategies employed by people while learning new languages
• Discuss the role of all the figures of speech in the advancement of language
• Analyze the complexities of autism and its victims
• Offer a linguist approach to language uniqueness between a Down Syndrome child and an autist
• Express dance as a language
• Express music as a language
• Express language as a form of language
• Evaluate the role of cultural diversity in the decline of languages in South Africa
• Discuss the development of the Greek language
• Critically review two literary texts, one from the medieval era and another published a decade ago, and examine the language shifts

Linguistics Essay Topics

You may also need Linguistics research topics for your Linguistics essays. As a linguist in the making, these can help you consider controversies in Linguistics as a discipline and address them through your study. You can consider:

• The connection of sociolinguistics in comprehending interests in multilingualism
• Write on your belief of how language encourages sexism
• What do you understand about the differences between British and American English?
• Discuss how slangs grew and how they started
• Consider how age leads to loss of language
• Review how language is used in formal and informal conversation
• Discuss what you understand by polite language
• Discuss what you know by hate language
• Evaluate how language has remained flexible throughout history
• Mimicking a teacher is a form of exercising hate Language: discuss
• Body Language and verbal speech are different things: discuss
• Language can be exploitative: discuss
• Do you think language is responsible for inciting aggression against the state?
• Can you justify the structural representation of any symbol of your choice?
• Religious symbols are not ordinary Language: what are your perspective on day-to-day languages and sacred ones?
• Consider the usage of language by an English man and someone of another culture
• Discuss the essence of code-mixing and code-switching
• Attempt a psychological assessment on the role of language in academic development
• How does language pose a challenge to studying?
• Choose a multicultural society of your choice and explain the problem they face
• What forms does Language use in expression?
• Identify the reasons behind unspoken words and actions
• Why do universal languages exist as a means of easy communication?
• Examine the role of the English language in the world
• Examine the role of Arabic in the world
• Examine the role of romantic languages in the world
• Evaluate the significance of each teaching Resources in a language classroom
• Consider an assessment of language analysis
• Why do people comprehend beyond what is written or expressed?
• What is the impact of hate speech on a woman?
• Do you believe that grammatical errors are how everyone’s comprehension of language is determined?
• Observe the Influence of technology in language learning and development
• Which parts of the body are responsible for understanding new languages
• How has language informed development?
• Would you say language has improved human relations or worsened it considering it as a tool for violence?
• Would you say language in a black populous state is different from its social culture in white populous states?
• Give an overview of the English language in Nigeria
• Give an overview of the English language in Uganda
• Give an overview of the English language in India
• Give an overview of Russian in Europe
• Give a conceptual analysis on stress and how it works
• Consider the means of vocabulary development and its role in cultural relationships
• Examine the effects of Linguistics in language
• Present your understanding of sign language
• What do you understand about descriptive language and prescriptive Language?

List of Research Topics in English Language

You may need English research topics for your next research. These are topics that are socially crafted for you as a student of language in any institution. You can consider the following for in-depth analysis:

• Examine the travail of women in any feminist text of your choice
• Examine the movement of feminist literature in the Industrial period
• Give an overview of five Gothic literature and what you understand from them
• Examine rock music and how it emerged as a genre
• Evaluate the cultural association with Nina Simone’s music
• What is the relevance of Shakespeare in English literature?
• How has literature promoted the English language?
• Identify the effect of spelling errors in the academic performance of students in an institution of your choice
• Critically survey a university and give rationalize the literary texts offered as Significant
• Examine the use of feminist literature in advancing the course against patriarchy
• Give an overview of the themes in William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”
• Express the significance of Ernest Hemingway’s diction in contemporary literature
• Examine the predominant devices in the works of William Shakespeare
• Explain the predominant devices in the works of Christopher Marlowe
• Charles Dickens and his works: express the dominating themes in his Literature
• Why is Literature described as the mirror of society?
• Examine the issues of feminism in Sefi Atta’s “Everything Good Will Come” and Bernadine Evaristos’s “Girl, Woman, Other”
• Give an overview of the stylistics employed in the writing of “Girl, Woman, Other” by Bernadine Evaristo
• Describe the language of advertisement in social media and newspapers
• Describe what poetic Language means
• Examine the use of code-switching and code-mixing on Mexican Americans
• Examine the use of code-switching and code-mixing in Indian Americans
• Discuss the influence of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” on satirical literature
• Examine the Linguistics features of “Native Son” by Richard Wright
• What is the role of indigenous literature in promoting cultural identities
• How has literature informed cultural consciousness?
• Analyze five literature on semantics and their Influence on the study
• Assess the role of grammar in day to day communications
• Observe the role of multidisciplinary approaches in understanding the English language
• What does stylistics mean while analyzing medieval literary texts?
• Analyze the views of philosophers on language, society, and culture

English Research Paper Topics for College Students

For your college work, you may need to undergo a study of any phenomenon in the world. Note that they could be Linguistics essay topics or mainly a research study of an idea of your choice. Thus, you can choose your research ideas from any of the following:

• The concept of fairness in a democratic Government
• The capacity of a leader isn’t in his or her academic degrees
• The concept of discrimination in education
• The theory of discrimination in Islamic states
• The idea of school policing
• A study on grade inflation and its consequences
• A study of taxation and Its importance to the economy from a citizen’s perspectives
• A study on how eloquence lead to discrimination amongst high school students
• A study of the influence of the music industry in teens
• An Evaluation of pornography and its impacts on College students
• A descriptive study of how the FBI works according to Hollywood
• A critical consideration of the cons and pros of vaccination
• The health effect of sleep disorders
• An overview of three literary texts across three genres of Literature and how they connect to you
• A critical overview of “King Oedipus”: the role of the supernatural in day to day life
• Examine the novel “12 Years a Slave” as a reflection of servitude and brutality exerted by white slave owners
• Rationalize the emergence of racist Literature with concrete examples
• A study of the limits of literature in accessing rural readers
• Analyze the perspectives of modern authors on the Influence of medieval Literature on their craft
• What do you understand by the mortality of a literary text?
• A study of controversial Literature and its role in shaping the discussion
• A critical overview of three literary texts that dealt with domestic abuse and their role in changing the narratives about domestic violence
• Choose three contemporary poets and analyze the themes of their works
• Do you believe that contemporary American literature is the repetition of unnecessary themes already treated in the past?
• A study of the evolution of Literature and its styles
• The use of sexual innuendos in literature
• The use of sexist languages in literature and its effect on the public
• The disaster associated with media reports of fake news
• Conduct a study on how language is used as a tool for manipulation
• Attempt a criticism of a controversial Literary text and why it shouldn’t be studied or sold in the first place

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