Linguistics
In its Honors Program the Linguistics program awards Honors or No Honors (as of 2016) 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
2023-2024
- John Joseph Babbitts III, "Understanding the Relative Case: A Review on the Historical Use of Atkan Aleut Ergativity" (Honors)
Jack B. Martin + Rachel Varra, Alexander Angelov
- Amanda Christina Beyer, "Adjective order as a word learning cue in preschool-aged children" (Honors)
Kate Harrigan + Shinji Shimoura, Sadhwi Srinivas, Anya Hogoboom
- Nicole Marie Eubanks, "Sign Language and Constructing Categories: The Cognitive Link" (Honors)
Kate Harrigan + Leslie Cochrane, Anya Hogoboom, Jeremy Pope
- Rowan Soo Levick, "Children’s Ability to Use Word-Learning to Help Differentiate Pre-Obstruent Vowel Length" (Honors)
Kate Harrigan + Anya Hogoboom, Sadhwi Srinivas, Katherine Barko-Alva
- Joseph Barrett Lorber, "Against a Ternary Analysis of Syllable Strength: Positional Variation in the Vowel Inventory of English" (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Kate Harrigan, Sadhwi Srinivas, Abbie Cathcart
- Megha Vasudevan, "“We catch them all!”: Discourse analysis of Trump’s and Biden’s stancetaking and legitimation practices on Twitter" (Honors)
Iyabo Osiapem + Leslie Cochrane, Sadhwi Srinivas, Francesca Sawaya
- Val Willham, "Training Grammaticality: Can people be taught to perceive the singular ‘they’ as grammatical?" (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Iyabo Osiapem, Leslie Cochrane, Aiko Kitamura
2022-2023
- Grace Liscomb, "Bad Asians: How heritage language ability and perception affects Korean and Chinese college students’ identity" (Honors)
Iyabo Osiapem + Rachel Varra, Leslie Cochrane, Adela Amaral
- Alexia Brickelle Wheeler, "Identity Building in Appalachia" (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Leslie Cochrane, Kate Harrigan, Jon Pineda
- Ruoqing Yao, "Referential resolution for resumptive pronouns in island-violating sentences" (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Kate Harrigan, Jack Martin, Christopher Ball
2021-2022
- Alice Benjamin, "The Role of Environment in Children's Acquisition of Motion Verbs" (Honors)
Kaitlyn Harrigan + Brian Rabinovitz, Talbot Taylor, Jack Martin - Lexie Wu , "Robert Brandom on Semantics and the Objectivity of Conceptual Norms" (Honors)
Talbot Taylor + Josh Gert, Leslie Cochrane, Rachel Varra - McKinley Sprinkle, "In Search of Phonetic Evidence for Prosodically-Motivated Aspiration" (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Daniel Parker, Kaitlyn Harrigan, Erin Webster
2020-2021
- Abram Clear, "Cross-Dialectal Vowel Mapping and Glide Perception" (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Kate Harrigan, Leslie Cochrane, Adela Amaral - Abigail Fergus, "Accessing the Gray Area Between Phonetics and Phonology: the Development of Vowel Length as a Subphonemic Cue" (Honors)
Kate Harrigan + Anya Hogoboom, Dan Parker, Brian Rabinovitz - Elizabeth Maneval, "Quantifying Dimensions of the Vowel Space in Patients with Schizophrenia and Controls" (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Kaitlyn Harrigan, Daniel Parker, Zach Conrad - Celia Metzger, "Linguistic Measures of Symptomatology in Schizophrenia" (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Leslie Cochrane, Kaitlyn Harrigan, Elena Prokhorova - Tristan Ramage, "Computed Semantics of Words Denoting Nebulous Human Concepts" (Honors)
Daniel Parker + Talbot Taylor, John Eisele - Madeleine Wade, "Morphosyntactic processing in semantically impoverished environments: Insight into measures and mechanisms" (Honors)
Daniel Parker + Kaitlyn Harrigan, Anya Hogoboom, Robert Barnet - Krista Wink, "Holes in the Bro-zone: Exploring Departures from Hegemonic Masculinity in Social Fraternities" (Honors)
Iyabo F. Osiapem + Leslie Cochrane, Kaitlyn Harrigan, Thomas J. Linneman
2019-2020
- Zeal An, "Underspecification in Language Processing" (Honors)
Daniel Parker + Anya Lunden, Kate Harrigan - Cassandra Davenport, "The Use of Themself to Refer to a Singular Antecedent" (Honors)
Daniel Parker + Leslie Cochrane, Elizabeth Losh, Kate Harrigan - Alyssa Grzesiak, "The Relationship Between Emotion and Codeswitching in Spanish-English Bilingual Speakers" (Honors)
Rachel Varra + Anya Lunden, Kate Harrigan, Meghan Miller - Rebecca Smyder, "Verbs of Motion: Effects of Cross-linguistic Transfer in Spanish-English Bilingual Children" (Honors)
Kaitlyn Harrigan + Randi Moore, Meghan Miller, Anya Lunden
2018-19
- Daniil Eliseev, "Identity Among Barbadian University Students and Their Attitudes to Migrant Labor" (Honors)
Iyabo Osiapem + Adela Amaral, Leslie Cochrane, Anya Lunden - Kate Sandberg, "Persuasion in Discourse: Evaluation Methods of Vegans" (Honors)
Leslie Cochrane + Iyabo Osiapem, Tolly Taylor, Brad Weiss - Megan Rouch, "The status of the word-final domain and linguistically-constrained language learning cues" (Honors)
Anya Lunden + Kate Harrigan, Dan Parker, Brian Castleberry
2017-18
- Jessica Campbell, "Stress Perception in L1 and L2 Spanish and English" (Honors)
Anya Lunden + Leslie Cochrane, Kaitlyn Harrigan, Jonathan Arries
2016-17
- Alexa Rosalsky, "Ambisyllabic Consonant Lengthening in English" (Honors)
Anya Lunden + Daniel Parker, Jack Martin, Peter Vishton - Quentin Ullrich, "Real Consumer Language: A Corpus-Based Methodology for Genericide Claims and Trademark Protection" (Honors)
Daniel Parker + Leslie Cochrane, Laura Heymann, Jack Martin
2015-16
- Sarah Frederick, "Heleluyvn Yvhikares ('I Will Sing Hallelujah') A Documentation of Muscogee-Seminole Hymns and Hymn-Singing Practice Within the Seminole and Muscogee (Creek) Nations of Oklahoma" (Honors)
Jack Martin + Kathleen Bragdon, Iyabo Osiapem, Anne Rasmussen - Robert LaRose, "The Language of Music and Math: An Investigation of Cross-Domain Effects of Structural Priming" (Honors)
Daniel Parker + Anya Lunden, Jack Martin, Brian Hulse - Anderson Richardson, "Gay Men's Language in Italy: In-Group Perceptions and Attitudes" (Honors)
Iyabo Osiapem + Kathleen Boyle, Leslie Cochrane, Jack Martin
2014-15
- No Honors students this year
2013-14
- Rachel Brooks, "A Summary of Virginia High School English Teachers' Cultural and Linguistic Classroom Experiences: Learning about Learning and Talking about Talking" (Honors)
Anne Charity Hudley + Jeremy Stoddard, Christopher Howard - Mirva Johnson, "Trends of Loanword Origins in 20th Century Finnish" (High Honors)
Anya Lunden + Jack Martin, Nicholas Popper - Jeffrey Ngare, "Phonetic Knowledge as an Aid to the Perception of Mandarin Tone by Second Language Learners" (Honors)
S.L. Anya Lunden + Jack Martin, Peng Yu - Benjamin Weissman, "'You gon' let me hold that card': Directive speech acts and authority in The Wire" (Highest Honors)
Iyabo Osiapem + Leslie Cochrane, Jeremy Pope
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 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 Deschenes, "Transparency, specification, and inventory asymmetry: Issues in Finnish vowel harmony" (High Honors)
Anya Lunden + Jack Martin, David Phillips - Mary 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 Kessler, "Michael Tomasello on Language Development: The Puzzle of Human Linguistic Uniqueness" (High Honors)
Talbot Taylor + Barbara King, Ann Reed - Daniel 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 Devane, "The Syntax and Semantics of Tongan Noun Phrases" (Honors)
Jack Martin + Ann Reed, Kathleen Bragdon - Jennifer 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 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 Fama, "Talking Southern in Virginia: Investigating the Presence of /ay/ Monophthongization" (High Honors)
Anne Charity + Arthur Knight, Ann Reed - Randi 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