Linguistics

In its Honors Program the Linguistics  program awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

• Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
  Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2012-13

• Elizabeth DeBusk, "Evaluation of the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening in Appalachian Virginia" (Highest Honors) 
  Anne Charity-Hudley +Ann Reed, C. Denice Johnson 
• Laura Faircloth, "The L2 Perception of Phonemic Distinctions in Arabic by English Speakers" (Highest Honors) 
  Erin Ament + Anya Lunden, John Eisele 
• Kiara Symone Savage, "An Investigation of the Extent to Which Two African American Children with Autism Develop Social Language Variation" (Honors) 
  Anne Charity-Hudley + Erin Ament, Janice Zeman 

2011-12

• Kenay Sudler, "Accent, Attitudes, and the Speech-Language Pathologist" (High Honors) 
  Anne Charity-Hudley + Erin Ament, Cheryl Dickter
• Rachel Tatman, "Perception of Non-Phonological Reduction: A Case Study for Using Experimental Data to Investigate Rule-based Phonology and Exemplar Theory" (Honors) 
  Erin Ament + Christopher Ball, Linda Lanz 

2010-11

• Christopher Hart-Moynihan, "Switch-Reference and Case-Marketing in Koasati Discourse" (High Honors)
  Jack Martin + Ann Reed, Kathleen Bragdon-Brown
• Erica Shifflett, "Pitch, Frequency and Duration: Using Phonetic Correlates to Determine the World-Level Stress Pattern of Tunisian Arabic" (Honors)
  Chadia Mansour + John Eisele, Erin Ament

2009-10

• Nicholas Fernand Deschenes, "Transparency, specification, and inventory asymmetry: Issues in Finnish vowel harmony" (High Honors)
  Anya Lunden + Jack Martin, David Phillips
• Mary Nagy Henin, "A Case Study of Best Practices in teaching Reading to English Language Learning Second Graders" (Honors)
  Jonathan Arries + Ann Reed, Anne Harper Charity Hudley, Kelly Whalon
• Joseph Thomas Kessler, "Michael Tomasello on Language Development: The Puzzle of Human Linguistic Uniqueness" (High Honors)
  Talbot Taylor + Barbara King, Ann Reed
• Daniel James Villarreal, "Closing the Communication Gap Between Undergraduates and Mathematics Professors" (Highest Honors)
  Anne Charity Hudley + Talbot Taylor, Chi-Kwong Li

2008-09

• No Honors students this year

2007-08

• Melissa Janet Devane, "The Syntax and Semantics of Tongan Noun Phrases" (Honors)
  Jack Martin + Ann Reed, Kathleen Bragdon
• Jennifer Lynn Wilson, "Linguistic Clues: The Foreign Lanugage Learner's Use of Sortal Classifiers and Morphological Cues in Mandarin Chinese" (High Honors)
  Ann Reed + Katherine Kulick, Xiao Want

2006-07

• Hannah Eliza Askin, "Helping Teachers to Understand and Address Dialect Variations in the Classroom: A Website About African American English" (Highest Honors)
  Anne Charity + Ken Lacy, Kelly Whalon
• Mackenzie Elizabeth Fama, "Talking Southern in Virginia: Investigating the Presence of /ay/ Monophthongization" (High Honors)
  Anne Charity + Arthur Knight, Ann Reed
• Randi Elizabeth Tucker, "Encoding Motion Events in Tagalog" (Honors)
  Ann Reed + Georgia Irby-Massey, Jack Martin

2004-05

• Emerson Odango, "A Synthesized Analysis of Sentential and Discourse Continuity of Preposed Ang-Phrases in Tagalog Narrative Discourse" (Highest Honors)
  Ann Reed + Jack Martin, Edgar Williams