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.
Kenny Baclawski '12: "A frequency-based analysis of the modern -s register-marking suffix." Presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, January 7.
Tom Leddy-Cecere '10 & Kenny Baclawski '12 (with Jim Stanford): "Farewell to the founders: Dramatic dialect changes between eastern and western New England." Presented at the American Dialect Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, January 6.
2011
Kenny Baclawski '12: "A New Exploration of Ongoing Change in the Moari Possession System." Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation NWAV-40, Georgetown University, October 28, 2011.
Larry Kenny '11 (with Jim Stanford): "Testing Transmission and Diffusion with an Agent-Based Model." Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation NWAV-40, Georgetown University, October 28, 2011.
Kenny Baclawski '12: "Fieldwork Evidence for Leveling in the Possessive System of Vernacular Maori." Presented at the Harvard University Undergraduate Linguistics Forum, April 9, 2011.
Kayla Gebeck '12: "The Cycling Success of Indigenous Language Efforts and Programs." Presented at the Harvard University Undergraduate Linguistics Forum, April 9, 2011.
Zachary De '12, Kate Miller '12 & Stephanie Pignatiello '12: "The Kinsey Scale and 'Gay-Sounding' Speech Features." Presented at the McGill University Canadian Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates, March 12, 2011.
Tom Leddy-Cecere '10, Kenny Baclawski '12, Nacole Walker '11 & Jim Stanford: "New England borderlands: A new investigation of the east-west dialect boundary." University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 17.2: Selected papers from NWAV-39.
2010
Thomas Leddy-Cecere '10, Kenny Baclawski '12 & Nacole Walker '11 (with Jim Stanford and Dartmouth LING 80 Dialectology): "New England Borderlands: A New Investigation of the East-West Dialect Boundary." Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation NWAV-39, University of Texas-San Antonio, November 4, 2010.
Kalina Newmark '11 & Nacole Walker '11: "Ethnic Construction on the Borderlands: 'Native-American Accented English.'" Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation NWAV-39, University of Texas-San Antonio, November 4, 2010.
Lauren Glover '11: "The Contrast Between Top-Down Language Planning and Bottom-Up Natural Language Growth: A Case Study of Maori." Presented at the Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium, April 10, 2010.
Sarah Harris '11: "Towards Understanding SiSwati Noun Classes." Presented at the McGill University Canadian Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates, 2010.
2009
Chi Chu '10: "Stop-like modification of dental fricatives in Indian English: a preliminary study to perceptual experiments." Presented at the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Second Special Workshop on Speech, Portland, Oregon, May 23, 2009.
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 (pdf)
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
