Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Independent research may be carried out by students as part of their regular course of study under the rubric of Linguistics 85 or Cognitive Science 85. Interested students should approach individual faculty members to serve as advisors for such projects, though the projects must be approved by the Steering Committee of the Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science.

In addition, faculty members regularly make available a number of research opportunities for undergraduate students. The nature of these opportunities is highly variable. Some are for single terms, while other require two terms or more. Some are available to any interested student, while others are only open to majors in the program. Some are strictly extra-curricular, while others may include the possibility of receiving academic credit. The follow links provide additional information on commonly available research opportunities.

• Phonetics Lab
• Tungusic Research Group
• Linguistic Discovery
• Language Revitalization Project
• Presidential Scholarship
• Women in Science Project
• Dean of Faculty Undergraduate Research Grants

Student conference presentations and publications

2008

• Jessica LaBrie
  Numeral Classifiers in the Mru Language 
  Second Annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium   
  Cornell University Campus, March 9, 2008
• Nicholas Williams
  Mru Directionals and their Grammaticalization along the Verb-Affix Cline 
  The Sixth Annual Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium 
  Harvard University campus, April 19, 2008  

2006

• Rikker Dockum
  Convergences in Khumi and Marma morphosyntax
  The 39th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics
  University of Washington, September 17, 2006

2003

• Hunter Brooks
  Word-Initial *b in Proto-Indo-European: Saved by the *bel-?
  1st Annual Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium at Harvard, April 19-20, 2003
• Jennifer Conrad Bouton and Lindsay Whaley
  Grounding in Oroqen narrative: A re-analysis of 'present tense' marking
  The Chicago Linguistic Society (to appear in CLS 39, vol. 1: The main session)
• Rachael Degenshein (photos)
  Dholuo interdentals: fricatives or affricates?
  15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences [http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/], Barcelona, Spain, August 3-9, 2003 Abstract (6K PDF File)
• Rachel Halsema
  Language Policy in a Pluralistic Society: The View from South Africa
  1st Annual Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium at Harvard, April 19-20, 2003
• Elizabeth S. Norton, Stephanie Baker, and Laura Ann Petitto
  Bilingual Infants' Perception of ASL Phonetic Handshapes
  6th Annual Undergraduate Summer Workshop at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, June 8-21, 2003

2002

• Jennifer Conrad Bouton
  Oroqen Narrative Discourse: The Use of Tense-Aspect Markers
  University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics 9, February 22-23, 2002
• Steven Lulich
  The phonetics and phonology of [v] in Contemporary Standard Russian
  University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics 9, February 22-23, 2002
  and
  University of Stuttgart graduate program in experimental phonetics, June, 2002
• Paul Thompson and Steven Lulich
  Lexicon Development and the Infosphere
  Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Question Answering Workshop
  Las Palmas, Spain, May 28, 2002

1996

• Lenore Grenoble and Matthew Riley
  The Role of Deictics in Discourse Coherence: French voici/voila and Russian vot/von
  Journal of Pragmatics, 1996, 25:6, 819-838