Alumni Senior Essays
Student | SENIOR PROJECT | Advisor |
Ryan Caro (2012) | Ashwini Deo | |
Daniel Hansen (2012) | Claire Bowern | |
Jessica Hsieh (2012) | Claire Bowen and Jelena Krivokapic | |
Laura Kling (2012) | Claire Bowern | |
Tyler Lau (2012) | Claire Bowern and Stephen Anderson | |
Julia Myers (2012) | Jelena Krivokapic | |
Stephanie Ros (2012) | Jelena Krivokapic | |
Destiny Tolliver (2012) | Like and African American English: Factors and Implications of Convergence | Ashwini Deo |
Tasha Torchon (2012) | Robert Frank | |
Claire Wallace (2012) | Claire Bowern | |
Angel Ayala (2011) | Phonetic Convergence: A Case Study of a Puerto Rican Spanish Speaker | Jelena Krivokapić |
Divya Subrahmanyam (2011) | From Location to Possession: | Ashwini Deo |
Ava Tattelman Parnes (2011) | Ang marks the what?: | Claire Bowern and Robert Frank |
Zhipeng (Nick) Huang (2011) | Too Heavy to Move: an analysis of heavy noun phrase shift and related phenomena | Raffaella Zanuttini and Robert Frank |
Jeonghyun Kim (2011) | The subsyllabic hierarchy of Korean | Matthew Wolf |
Jesse Storbeck (2011) | Reconstructing the medio-passive participle of Proto-Indo-European | Jay Fisher |
AJ Espinoza (2010) | Comning & Going in Koine Greek: Deixes & Aspect of ‘Eρχομαι (Erchomai) | Ashwini Deo |
Jessica Hunter (2010) | A Case Study in Contact Linguistics: The Western Torres Strait Language and Meryam Mir | Claire Bowern and Erich Round |
Andrew Lai (2010) | What About Tone? | Darya Kavitskaya |
Nathaniel Little (2010) | Filling in the Gaps: Assessing Syntactic & Semantic Approaches to Gapping | Robert Frank |
Justin Wei Lo (2010) | Possible constraints and allophonic voicing in Australian Aboriginal Languages: Evidence from Bardi, Kayardild, Warlpiri, and Yan-Nhangu | Claire Bowern, Erich Round, Raffaella Zanuttini |
Theodore Palenski (2010) | Children’s Creative Flapping | Matt Wolf |
Molly Wenig Rubenstein (2010) | Like You Do: a bilingual perspective on the indefinite second person | Joe Errington and Larry Horn |
Hillary Schepps (2010) | Competing constraints and hypercorrect whom: | Laurence Horn |
Nathaniel Baldwin Clark (2009) | Phonological Working Memory and Phonological Awareness | Dave Braze |
Edwin Everhart (2009) |
Phonological Change in Japanese-Ainu Loanwords |
Stephen Anderson |
Emily Finn (2009) | An FMRI investigation of intermediate traces | Maria M Piñango |
Christian Griffin (2009) | An Optimality Theoretic Analysis of the Historical Development of Liquids from Late Common Slavic through Old Church Slavic and into Middle/Modern Bulgarian | Darya Kavistkaya |
Michael Haghkerdar (2009) | Western Iranian Ezāfé: A Comparative Syntactic Analysis | Raffaella Zanuttini and Thomas Leu |
Samantha Amodeo (2008) | The Suffix -esque in English: History and Contemporary Usage | Dianne Jonas and Laurence Horn |
María Castellanos (2008) | Tonal Phenomena in Oapan Nahuatl | Stephen Anderson |
Eric Ciaramella (2008) | Topics in Georgian Morphosyntax: The Verbal Noun and Doubled Verbs | Darya Kavitskaya, Dianne Jonas, and Robert Greenberg |
Heather Freeman (2008) | Hapax Legomena in the Old English Exodus: An Etymological Study | Roberta Frank Dianne Jonas |
Harry Guinness (2008) | Shades of Brown: Standard Scottish English in a Received Pronunciation World | Dianne Jonas |
Philip Andrew Patrick Olson, III (2008) | Dative Experiencer Verbs in Georgian: A Study of Subjecthood and Agency | Dianne Jonas |
Nicole Thain (2008) | Sentential Negation in French and French Based Creoles | Dianne Jonas |
Jessie Theobald-Ellner (2008) | Functional Categories in English and German Broca’s Aphasia Production | Maria M. Piñango |
Brendan Woo (2008) | Effects of Short-Term Environment Change on Language Attrition: Cross-Linguistic Case Studies | Dianne Jonas |
Josh Ehrlich (2007) | Irony | Laurence Horn |
Ken Garber (2007) | On the Statues of V-to-I in Faroese and the Role of Danish Influence: A myspace.com study of native speakers | Dianne Jonas |
Claire Halpert (2007) | The Present-Tense Alternation in Zulu Syntax | Olúşeye Adéşolá and Dianne Jonas |
Elizabeth D. Johnson (2007) | The Phonological Lexicon: Gesture or Feature Based? A Sensorimotor Adaption Investigation | Maria M. Piñango |
Christopher Lapinig (2007) | Standard Outsourced English: A Critical Analysis of the Use of English in Philippine Call Centers | R. Greenberg and A. Camacho |
Brandon LeVon Cook (2007) |
Accounting for Code-Switching in Japanese-English Popular Music |
Dianne Jonas and Laurence Horn |
Michael Shvartsman (2007) | Adjudicating Between Linguistic Theory Types Based on Evidence From Priming: The Case of Successive Cyclicity | Maria M. Piñango |
Patty Breech (2006) | The Verbal Syntax of Old Spanish: A statistical analysis of El libro del Caballero Zifar | Dianne Jonas |
Jonathan Breit (2006) | Perspective in Generative Metrics | Stephen Anderson and Ioana Chitoran |
Serena Crivellaro (2006) | The Syntax of Cimbrian: Contact-Induced Change in an Endangered Language | Dianne Jonas |
Catherine M. Dolan (2006) | Language in Croatia: Influenced by Nationalism | Robert D. Greenberg and Dianne Jonas |
Erica Hilary Greenberg (2006) | Evidence for the Divergence Hypothesis? | Laurence Horn |
Gary Gregoricka (2006) | A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of Aspects of Middle Egyptian and Coptic Syntax | Dianne Jonas |
Vardit Haimi-Cohen (2006) | The Authorship of Saint Erkenwald: A Syntactic and Etymological Study | Marie Boroff and Dianne Jonas |
Detelina Kalkandjieva (2006) | L1 Attrition and L2 Influence: Multiple Wh-Fronting in Bulgarian-English Bilinguals | Maria Babyonyshev |
Kyle Orr (2006) |
Towards a Complete Theory of Extraprosodic Behavior |
? |
Leslie J. L. Root (2006) | Statistical Learning in Infant Phonological Acquisition: Investigating an Articulatory Approach | Ioana Chitoran |
Gabriel Gil Arana (2005) | A Minimalist Approach to Code-Switching in English-Chinese Wh-Questions | Maria Bayonyshev |
Lisa Edelson (2005) | The Relationship between Prosody and Expressiveness in Williams Syndrome | Dianne Jonas |
Jennifer Guest (2005) | Computer Terminology in Scottish Gaelic | Dianne Jonas |
Anneli Chambliss (2004) | Experiencers in Finnish raising constructions: a study of the verb vaikuttaa (joltakin) | Dianne Jonas |
Denali K. Dasgupta (2004) | PLAYED: An Examination of Pragmatics in Conversation and Game Discourse | Laurence Horn |
Samantha Jay (2004) | An Analysis of Interjections: Theory, Biology, and the Brain | Laurence Horn |
James Ryan Larsen (2004) | It’s More Than Just Spanglish: Spanish-English Code Switching in Determiner Phrases | Dianne Jonas |
Patricia S. Vandel (2004) | Prospects for an Endangered Language: The Effects of Stigmatization, Group Sentiment and Standardization Movements on the Future of the Kashubian Language | Darya Kavitskaya |
Karen Ash (2003) | Japanese and English Within Palaun | Dianne Jonas |
Charles Colman (2003) | Acquisition of Past Tense Aspect in Child Spanish and French | Dianne Jonas |
Xin Dong (2003) | The Syntax of Nonverbal Sentences in Middle Egyptian | Dianne Jonas |
Tova Friedman (2003) | The Existential Sentence in Modern Hebrew | Dianne Jonas |
Jill Gray (2003) | Train Go Sorry: Idiomaticity in American Sign Language | Laurence Horn |
Jonathan S. Lehman (2003) | Vowel Hiatus Resolution in the Transition from Vulgar Latin to Portuguese: An Optimality-Theoretic Account | Darya Kavitskaya |
Kelsey Linnett (2003) | Class III Strong Verbs in Old Norse: A Historical Account from A Modern Perspective | Dianne Jonas |
Abhimanyu Sud (2003) | Molecules: Thermodynamics ≈ | Louis Goldstein |
James Summer (2003) | The Evidence for Phonological Merger in the LAGS | Laurence Horn |
Jennifer Watson (2003) | Talk, Terms, and Turn-Taking in a Virtual Environment | Dianne Jonas |
Catherine Armstrong (2002) | Motivation and its Effects on the Pronunciation of Spanish as a Second Language | Dianne Jonas |
Matthew H. Blong (2002) | On the Debated Origins of European Hydronymy | Stanley Insler |
Vanessa Herald (2002) | Rhotic Distribution in Caipira: A Dialect of Brazilian Portuguese | Darya Kavitskaya |
Jeffrey S. Jacobi (2002) | African American Vernacular English in New Haven, Connecticut: A Linguistic Survey of the Tre | Laurence Horn |
David Stewart (2002) | The Status of Welsh Culture and Language in Patagonia | Dianne Jonas |
Joshua Wright (2002) | Sanskrit Language, Mother Language: Linguistic and Cultural Revival in Modern India | Dianne Jonas, and Stanley Insler |
Michael Ellis (2001) | Computational Implementation of Discourse Representation Theory for Information Retrieval | Charles Yang |
Mark Herz (2001) | The Possible Subjecthood of the Preverbal NP of the German Verb scheinen, ‘seem’ | ? |
Erin Elizabeth Rowe (2001) | Pragmatic Deficits in Autism | Dianne Jonas |
Elana Lee Solon (2001) | A Platinum Tongue | Dianne Jonas |
Erin Callaham (2000) | Derivational Morphology in Guadeloupe Creole | Dianne Jonas |
Elisha M. Danford (2000) | Universal Grammar Ain’t Just for Kids Anymore: Second Language Acquisition After the Critical Period | Sergey Avrutin |
Brooke Anne Hutchens (2000) | An Analysis of the SE Morpheme in Catalan, Italian and Spanish | Dianne Jonas |
Stefanie B. Lindskog (2000) |
Socio-linguistic and Conversational Motivations of Code Switching |
? |
Sarah R. Malech (2000) | An Investigation of Narrative Language in Children With Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Using the Social Attribution Task | Rhea Paul |
Jasmine Cagle Swann (2000) | First Language Interference in Written Expression: A Multi-dialectical Analysis of English Language Skills and a Proposal for a Pedagogy of Integrated Focused Correction | Dianne Jonas |
Thomas J. Conners (1999) | Reordering the Sagas: Evidence Towards a Head Initial VP in Old Icelandic | Dianne Jonas |
Esther Han (1999) | Initial Liquid Loan-word Adaptation in Korean: The Case of the Sliding Constraint | ? |
Gregory S. Joo (1999) | A Historical Analysis of the Experiencer Verb Think | Dianne Jonas |
Gordy Rogers (1999) | Explaining Neutral Vowels in Uralic: an Historical Approach | ? |
Anthony Sagnella (1999) | Italo-American Speech in New Haven | Abigail Kaun |
Benjamin Smith (1999) | Conversation and Rationality: The Human Subject in Theories of Language Use | Laurence Horn |
Lali Trevor (1999) | Negation in Cantonese | Dianne Jonas |
Daniel Ezra Johnson (1998) | The Tensing and Laxing of Short “A” in New Haven, Connecticut | Joseph Errington |
Rebecca L. Merz (1998) | Spelling-Pronunciation Discrepancies in English: How English Spelling Got To Be So Weird | Dianne Jonas |
Adam Morse (1998) | Bridging and Definite Noun Phrases
| Professor Horn |
Pamela Halsey Varady (1998) | Multiple Wh-fronting in Yiddish | Dianne Jonas |
Benjamin Oshrin (1997) | The Learning Model | Abigail Kaun |
Bridget Copley (1996) | The Significance of Negative Suprasegmentals | Laurence Horn |
Jennifer Cunningham (1996) | Evidence for the Role of Pragmatics in Children’s Interpretation of Anaphors | Sergey Avrutin |
Preethi Krishmamurthy (1996) | “Out, Out, Damn Gender Gap”: The Effects of Sex on Profanity | Laurence Horn |
Ginessa E. Lawson (1996) | Classical and Romantic Views of Metaphor In Modern Linguistic Theory | Laurence Horn |
Matthew Richardson (1995) | Defining the Notion of ‘Subject’ in Hindi
| Stephen R. Anderson |
P. H. Wilt (1995) | Endowing Names with Prejudice: Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Sources of Derogation | Laurence Horn |
Susan Wolf (1995) | Fragmented Discourses: Nationalistic and Ethnic Identitarian Ideologies Underlying Bilingual Education | Joseph Errington |
Rebecca Om (1994) | Taboo Avoidance and Creativity in Language | Laurence Horn |
Natasha Millikan (1993) | And Ain’t I a Man? | Laurence Horn |
Eric Brown (1992) | The Politics of Gay Language | Laurence Horn |
Renée Fleysher (1992) | “CARTE BLANCHE”: Sociolinguistics of Interaction and Framing of License in Popular Humor in Montreal, Canada | Joe Errington |
Anne Curzan (1991) | Sex and Sexism in Words | Laurence Horn |
Jason R. Merchant (1991) | The impersonal passive in Dutch and German | Laurence Horn |
Jay Sekora (1989) | Discourse, Functional Sentence Divisions, Word Order, and Language Processing | Laurence Horn |
Catherine Marquet (1987) | Gender, Power and Language: Implications of Actual and Perceived Speech in a Patriarchal Society | Laurence Horn |
Andrew F. Swartz (1987) | A Report to the Scholars of the House Committee | Richard Gerrig |
Samuel Bayer (1984) | A Theory of Linearization in Relational Grammar | Laurence Horn |
Anne Malcolm (1984) | The Laity and the Tiger: The Semantics of Kind Terms | Laurence Horn |
Lory A. Barsdate (1983) | Legal Language: Form and Reform | Laurence Horn |
Osvaldo Jaeggli (1976) | Some Remarks on Spanish Clitics | Laurence Horn |
| Essays with unknown dates (1991-1999) |
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Anthony Losongco (?) | Optimality Theory and the syntax of codeswitching: Approaches, methods, and applications | Dianne Jonas |
John Eure (?) | Maltese Arabic Syllabic Phenomena in Optimality Theory | ? |
Alison Frazzini (?) | Effects of Dialect-Variability on Recall of Spoken Word Lists | Louis Goldstein and Laurence Horn |
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