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.
Student Conference Presentations and Publications
2013
Kenny Baclawski '12 "The Kuki-Chin deictic complex: Examining interconnected reference systems." Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, January 3-6.
Jacquelyn de la Torre '10 "Valency-Changing Operations in SiSwati: Passives and Other Extensions as Arguments." Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics and the Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Georgetown University, March 9
Hannah Perry '15 "Receding Traditional Eastern New England Dialect Features in Maine: A Sociophonetic Study." Paper presented at the Third Annual Hunter College Undergraduate Linguistics and Language Study Conference (HULLS-3), May 4, 2013, City University of New York
Nathan Severance '12 and Kenny Baclawski '12 (with Jim Stanford) "Interrupted transmission: A study of Eastern New England dialect features in rural central New Hampshire." Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, January 3-6.
Natalie Schrimpf '12 "Politics and dialect variation: A sociophonetic analysis of the Southern Vowel Shift in Middle Tennessee." Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, January 3-6.
Dartmouth Linguistics majors presenting their research posters at the Dartmouth College President's Undergraduate Research Forum, Alumni Hall, May 23, 2012
Ian Stewart '14 in Tokyo, Japan, August 2, 2012 (with Jim Stanford)
2012
- Ian Stewart '14 (with Jim Stanford): The question of density: Multi-agent modeling of field data in Sui exogamous villages. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation: Asia/Pacific 2, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan, August 2.
- 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.
- Zachary De '12 "Shared experience: A sociophonetic study of gay-sounding speech." New Ways of Analyzing Variation 41, Indiana University, October 26.
- Larry Kenny '11 (with Jim Stanford): "An agent-based simulation of gender and language variation. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 41, Indiana University, October 26.
- Nacole Walker '11 and Kalina Newmark '11 (with Jim Stanford and Carmen Fought). "Fieldwork and minority communities." Workshop at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 41, Indiana University, October 25.
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
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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
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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
