2019
Magda Andrews-Hoke
When Poems Don’t Meet our Expectations: Effects of Slant Rhyme on Duration (Natalie Weber)
Anelisa Fergus
Lend Me Your Ears: Otitis Media and Aboriginal Australian languages (Claire Bowern)
James Lin
And that’s the T: the tenseless analysis of Mandarin Chinese and the universality of T (Hadas Kotek)
Noah Mahood Macey
S morpheme durations in English: An experimental approach (Jason Shaw)
William Merrill
Sequential neural networks as automata (Robert Frank)
Rose Mintzer-Sweeney
Speech, sign, and the emergence of dual patterning (Natalie Weber)
Jaylen J. Pittman
Referential strategies and referential variants in Old Chinese: Semantics and Pragmatics of Pronominal Reference in Old Chinese (Laurence R. Horn)
2018
Nicholas Hathaway
Generalizing Sentiment Analysis Techniques Across Sub-Categories of IMDB Movie Reviews (Robert Frank)
Katie Martin
Even and Negative Bias in Polar Questions (Hadas Kotek and Raffaella Zanuttini)
Rachael Regan
Here’s you a thesis: An evaluation of methodology for research in micro-comparative syntax (Jim Wood)
Edie Reimink
Is This Thesis Fake News? Linguistic Methods for Categorizing News (Claire Bowern)
Jonathan Roig
Perceptions of Dialect Standardness in Puerto Rican Spanish (Jason Shaw)
Kate Rosenberg
What’s in a Name? A Typological and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Names of Pama-Nyungan Languages (Claire Bowern)
2017
Aidan Kaplan
Family Agreement: An Investigation of Possession in Moroccan Arabic (Jim Wood)
Tom McCoy
Pivot-based word alignment (Robert Frank)
Chris Paolini
Completed Cakes Experimental evidence for a property-sensitive conceptual-semantic analysis of [complete] & [finish] in the “coercion” configuration (Maria Piñango and Laurence Horn)
Hannah Phelps
Partial agreement in Tshiluba auxiliary constructions (Jason Zentz)
Eliza Scruton
Gendered Insults in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (Laurence Horn and Jason Stanley)
Carmen Wilson
Lexical Statistics Determine the Choice of Epenthetic Vowel in Japanese Loanword Adaption (Ryan Bennett and Jason Shaw)
Xuan Wu
Speaker Variability in Bardi (Claire Bowern and Jason Shaw)
Alina Yaman
Agency, Access, and Reclamation in the Basque Language Revival Movement (Claire Bowern and Paul Kockelman)
2016
Grace Brody
Two Different Realizations of the EPP: An Approach to Agreement Asymmetries in Modern Standard Arabic (Jim Wood)
Ethan Campbell-Taylor
The Samoan Reduplication System (Ryan Bennett)
Alexa Little
Language Learning Through Dependency Trees (Claire Moore-Cantwell)
Ralph Molina
Y’all, This Paper Is Crazy Interesting: A Study of Variation in US English (Laurence Horn and Raffaella Zanuttini)
Margaret Ott
Tweet Like a Girl: A Corpus Analysis of Gendered Language in Social Media (Bob Frank)
Kyle Parsard
Re-evaluating Relexification: The Case of Jamaican Creole (Claire Bowern)
Rose Sloan
Node-Based Induction of Tree-Substitution Grammars (Bob Frank)
Alexandra Torresquintero
Quantifiable Acoustic and Phonetic Differences between Primary and Secondary Stress in American English Words (Claire Moore-Cantwell)
2015
Melinda Becker
Degradation of the mental lexicon? Object naming impairments in Alzheimer patients (Ashwini Deo)
Miles Calabresi
Case in Icelandic: Evaluation of a Structure-Based Algorithm (Bob Frank and Jim Wood)
Laura DiNardo
Competing analyses of complement coercion: New evidence from behavioral and real time processing methods (Maria Piñango)
Maggie Kandel
ECCO-LOCATION: The Italian presentative ecco and its spatial interpretation (Raffaella Zanuttini)
Carolyn Lee
During the NJ Turnpike: Asymmetric preferences in spatial and temporal prepositions (Claire Bowern)
Allison Miller
Kreol in Mauritian Schools: Public Opinion and the Benefits of Mother Tongue Education (Laurence Horn)
Justin Moore
Evaluating approaches to Light Verb argument structure (Maria Piñango)
Andy Zhang
Contextual Effects on the Interpretation of Have: A Self-Paced Reading Study (Ashwini Deo and Maria Piñango)
2014
Patrick Killian
The genitive of negation: A structural analysis (Jim Wood)
Maria Kouneli
The syntax of silent locative prepositions in Greek (Robert Frank and Jim Wood)
Brenda Seah
But as a multi-level objection marker: Addressing issues raised by but-questions (Laurence Horn)
Diallo Spears
Rendaku in three-root compounds: A frequency-based approach to sequential voicing (Ryan Bennett)
Alexander Hirsch
Learning a Gendered Language: L2 Acquisition and Relative Processing Costs of Spanish Grammatical Gender and Number (Maria Piñango)
2013
Cameron Best
Pronoun Resolution in American Sign Language: A Literature Review to Motivate Neurocognitive Experimentation (Maria Piñango)
Lauren Bonomo
Acquisition of Stops of Hindi by Speakers of American English (Jelena Krivokapić)
John Clayton
Prosodic Boundaries in Singing: An exploration of the temporal effects of linguistic structure in western music (Jelena Krivokapić and Ian Quinn)
Elizabeth Freeburg
The Cost of Revival: the Role of Hebrew in Jewish Language Endangerment (Claire Bowern)
Phoebe Gaston
Syntactic error processing in bilingualism: an analysis of the Optional Infinitive stage in child language acquisition (Maria Piñango and Robert Frank)
Sophia Gilman
Comparative Method Algorithm (Claire Bowern and Gaja Jarosz)
Emily Foster Hanson
The Time-Course of Processing Novel Metonymy: A Self-Paced Reading Study (Maria Piñango)
Paulina Haduong
Mind the (Truth-Value) Gap: truth, falsity, and everything in between (Laurence Horn and Joshua Knobe)
Lorenzo Labitgan
Tagalog-English code-switching: issues in the nominal domain (Raffaella Zanuttini)
Hannah LaPalombara
An Optimality Theory Account of Phonological Variation in Kimberley Kriol (Claire Bowern and Gaja Jarosz)
Miriam Lauter
If SOME folks are wise, are others otherwise? The interaction of context and emphasis in online scalar implicature processing (Laurence Horn)
Zachary Maher
Opening a Can of Worms: Idiom Flexibility, Decomposability, and
the Mental Lexicon (Maria Piñango)
Katherine Ruffing
A Grammatical Description of Personal Pronoun Use in Uda (Dennis Storoshenko)
Amalia Skilton
A new proposal of Western Tukanoan consonants and internal classification (Claire Bowern)
Laura Wellman
Pudong and Putonghua: Sound Change and Language Shift in Shanghai (Stephen Anderson and Joseph Errington)
2012
Ryan Caro
Semantics of the Turkish non-past (Ashwini Deo)
Daniel Hansen
Linguists and Reversing Indigenous Language Shift (Claire Bowern)
Jessica Hsieh
The Alignment of Gesture and Intonation in Pwo Karen (Claire Bowen and Jelena Krivokapic)
Laura Kling
Polar Interrogatives in Bardi (Claire Bowern)
Tyler Lau
Origins of the Verbalizer Affixes in the Japonic Languages (Claire Bowern and Stephen Anderson)
Julia Myers
The behavior of nonverbal gestures at pauses in speech (Jelena Krivokapić)
Stephanie Ros
Quantifying reading comprehension with prosody (Jelena Krivokapić)
Destiny Tolliver
Like and African American English: Factors and Implications of Convergence (Ashwini Deo)
Tasha Torchon
Predicate and Nominal Clefts in Haitian Creole (Robert Frank)
Claire Wallace
Color Terms in Pama-Nyungan Languages (Claire Bowern)
2011
Angel Ayala
Phonetic Convergence: A Case Study of a Puerto Rican Spanish Speaker (Jelena Krivokapić)
Divya Subrahmanyam
From Location to Possession: A case study of Hindi ke pās (Ashwini Deo)
Ava Tattelman Parnes
Ang marks the what?: An analysis of noun phrase markers in Cebuano (Claire Bowern and Robert Frank)
Zhipeng (Nick) Huang
Too Heavy to Move: an analysis of heavy noun phrase shift and related phenomena (Raffaella Zanuttini and Robert Frank)
Jeonghyun Kim
The subsyllabic hierarchy of Korean (Matthew Wolf)
Jesse Storbeck
Reconstructing the medio-passive participle of Proto-Indo-European (Jay Fisher)
2010
AJ Espinoza
Coming & Going in Koine Greek: Deixes & Aspect of ‘Eρχομαι (Erchomai) (Ashwini Deo)
Jessica Hunter
A Case Study in Contact Linguistics: The Western Torres Strait Language and Meryam Mir (Claire Bowern and Erich Round)
Andrew Lai
What About Tone? The correlation between linguistic tone and musical pitch in two diachronic genres of Mandarin music (Darya Kavitskaya)
Nathaniel Little
Filling in the Gaps: Assessing Syntactic & Semantic Approaches to Gapping (Robert Frank)
Justin Wei Lo
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
Children’s Creative Flapping
[mɛɾǝl]: Do you spell that metal, medal, mettle, or meddle? (Matt Wolf)
Molly Wenig Rubenstein
Like You Do: a bilingual perspective on the indefinite second person (Joe Errington and Larry Horn)
Hillary Schepps
Competing constraints and hypercorrect whom: Syntactic uncertainty meets linguistic insecurity (Laurence Horn)