• "Frozen" in Time: Dialect and Language Ideology in Disney Films 

  Brous, Sophie (2021)

  This thesis investigates the appearance of linguistic ideologies and stereotypes in four recent Disney films (Frozen 2013, Moana 2016,Coco 2017, and The Lion King 2019) as they compare to those studied in older animated ...
• 1-D TV: A Computational Investigation into the Lexical Representation of Black Womanhood In Reality Television News 

  Habtu, Blien (2021)

  It is well-established that when categorizing lexical associations of words in news corpora, women and minorities tend to be associated with negative terms (Manziniet al. 2019). This harm is also carried through other forms ...
• "Say, Say, My Playmate": Music and Language Socialization in Children's Clapping Games 

  Coberly, Grace (2021)

  This thesis uses the framework of language socialization to investigate the socializing potential of children's clapping games. Adapting Schieffelin and Och's 1986 definition of language socialization to refer to music, I ...
• When nouns become verbs: Hungarian as a case study to classify verbalizers 

  Hungar, Brett (2021)

  There are three sources of meaning for denominal verbs: the noun it is derived from, the context in which it is produced, and the verbalizer used to form it. Much existing research on the meaning of denominal verbs focuses ...
• A Comparative Analysis of the Vitality of Welsh and Irish 

  Morrison, Eva (2020)

  The Welsh and Irish languages, the indigenous languages of Wales and Ireland, respectively, have experienced significant declines in their speaker populations since the beginning of English settlement in their homelands. ...
• The Documentation and Development of a Spelling System for San Bartolomé Quialana Zapotec 

  Mauro, Graham (2020)

  This thesis documents the spelling system created by Aurora Sánchez Gómez for Zapotec (Otomanguean) as spoken in San Bartolomé Quialana, Oaxaca. Beyond documentation, areas of over and underrepresentation of the underlying ...
• The Effect of Linguistic Typology on Transfer Learning of Morphology 

  Roe, Conor Stuart (2020)

  In the SIGMORPHON 2019 shared task 1, multiple teams attempted for the first time to leverage transfer learning to build more accurate models of natural language morphology with small amounts of target language data, with ...
• Building a Linguistics based Loss Function for Dialogue Generation 

  St. Clair, Jack (2020)

  This paper will investigate different loss functions used for various natural language processing (NLP) machine learning tasks. These loss functions have proven their worth in the area of machine translation but they have ...
• Prosody of Positive and Negative Conjunction in English and Bangla 

  Herringshaw, Travis E. (2020)

  In addition to merely joining multiple constituents, conjunction can serve as an explicit indicator of how those constituents are related –viz., if they are in a positive or negative semantic relation. Positive conjunction ...
• Life-form Overlap in San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Plant Taxonomy 

  Kelso, Neal (2020)

  This paper provides preliminary evidence that in San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec (SLQZ), an Otomanguean language of Oaxaca, Mexico, plant taxonomy exhibits a unique system wherein life-form classes overlap significantly. Though ...
• Underinformative Implicature Derivation on the Broader Autism Phenotype 

  Fennell, Rylee A. (2020)

  Underinformative implicatures (UIs) are a type of inference that can give rise to two potential meanings. UIs can be either literal, which do not require the use of social inferences, or pragmatic, which necessitate social ...
• The Impact of Teacher Education and Experience on Curriculum and Pedagogy to Sustain Linguistic Diversity and Accessibility 

  Asplundh, Marley (2019)

  This thesis investigates how teachers in American schools are informed by their own education and experience when teaching students with linguistic varieties different from their own. In order to investigate this, I observed ...
• DP-internal only in English and Russian 

  Fisher, Ian (2019)

  This paper presents an analysis of DP-internal only in English and Russian. I review the evidence in Coppock and Beaver (2012b, 2015) for definites containing only that do not presuppose uniqueness, and supplement it with ...
• Contrastive Focus on the Null Copula in African American English 

  Steliotes, Caroline (2018)

  In this thesis, I investigate the distribution of the null copula in African American English (AAE). Unlike previous accounts that have viewed the null copula as a purely phonological or syntactic phenomenon, I explore how ...
• "Siliminya, hello!" Negotiating Race, Place, and Language Ideologies in Post-Colonial Dalun, Ghana 

  Evans, Sabea (2018)

  This paper is an enthographic account of the motivating factors of language choice in Ghana through the lens of a community of Dagomba people in the rural town of Dalun in the Northern Region of Ghana. English-only education ...
• Double Classifiers in Navajo Verbs 

  Pronger, Lauren (2018)

  This thesis examines the phenomenon of double classifiers occurring in Navajo verbs. It analyzes these phenomena in the context of the phonological d-effect, and discusses possible reasons for the existence of double ...
• Perspectives on Language Endangerment: Zapotec Community Members Navigate the Future of their Language 

  Felker, Helen Margaret (2016)

  Although the empirical process of language loss has been well documented through statistical analysis and population demographics, the personal narratives of the individuals who speak these dying languages are rarely taken ...
• Conjunction in Colonial Valley Zapotec 

  Plumb, May Helena (2016)

  Colonial Valley Zapotec (CVZ) was spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico, dur- ing the colonial period; the language is attested a set of printed texts and handwritten documents. In this paper I discuss the four primary conjunctions ...
• The Mandarin Chinese de as a Type <e,t> Nominal Proform: A Syntax-Semantics Approach 

  Plesniak, Daniel H. (2016)

  In this paper, it is argued that the Mandarin Chinese particle de is analogous to the English pronoun one/ones. Initial evidence of this can be seen in the English sentence he likes red ones (as in, I like green shirts, ...
• Effects of Language Attitudes on Education in Arusha 

  Riffenburgh, Kelley (2015)

  This thesis examines language attitudes toward Swahili, English, and other languages in Tanzania. Swahili and English, Tanzania’s two official languages, are analyzed to a greater extent than other languages. However, the ...

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