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

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