• Towards Effective Machine Translation For A Low-Resource Agglutinative Language: Karachay-Balkar 

  Rice, Enora (2022)

  Neural machine translation (NMT) is often heralded as the most effective approach to machine translation due to its success on language pairs with large parallel corpora. However, neural methods produce less than ideal ...
• Keeping It Classy: Sinitic Classifiers and Their History in Literature 

  Evans, Will (2022)

  The purpose of this study is to chart the history of nominal classifiers in Sinitic (Chinese) languages. The particular focus is the forms in which classifiers appear throughout the written record, and to aid this analysis ...
• Evaluating the Existence and Nature of the Critical Period Hypothesis in Second Language Acquisition 

  Jayasankar, John (2022)

  This paper seeks to investigate the existence and nature of the Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH) in Second Language Acquisition (L2A). I conduct an extensive literature review into many studies spanning five decades into ...
• Where does it mean? Case-Studies on the Epistemology of the Semantic-Pragmatic Divide 

  Carvalho, João Pedro (2022)

  Throughout most of the 20th century, Semantics and Pragmatics were understood to be related, but distinct fields of study. By the turn of the century, a substantial number of scholars put into question a strict division ...
• Does 'x' Mark The Spot?: Negotiating Filipino/a/x Identities Online in the Philippines and the Diaspora 

  Benitez, Nuria Inez (2022)

  This thesis studies the different contexts behind and understandings of the term "Filipinx", which is intended to be a gender-inclusive alternative to "Filipino" but is now a controversial topic that is largely divided ...
• 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 ...
• "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 ...
• "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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• "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 ...
• 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 ...

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