• "The Language of College": A Case Study of Code-switching and Identity Performance in Northern Appalachian University Communities of Practice 

  Reutter, Mindy (2017)

  This paper investigates the distribution of Appalachian and Southern speech markers in an Eastern Ohio College Community and the sociolinguistic implications of the distribution. I combine a qualitative approach that ...
• Inner Speech in Working Memory During Silent Reading: Effects of Articulatory Suppression on Anticipated Lexical Stress 

  Tang, Irene (2019)

  As we silently read words on a page, we use an "inner speech" that includes rhythm and inflections as if we are reading aloud. We also use an inner speech when perfonning non-reading tasks such as remembering verbal ...
• The Reduplication of the Agentive -er Morpheme in Phrasal Verbs 

  Shapiro, Caleb C. (2019)

  For many English speakers, the agentive form of the phrasal verb pick up is picker-upper. The unusual reduplication of the -er has been subject to much debate on how it should be analyzed. I combined McIntyre's existing ...
• escaLATING CAPITALIZATION: Tumblr Bloggers' Use of Multiple Letter Cases Within a Single Word 

  Bienz, Sierra (2019)
• Exploring the Role of Emojis in Tweets for Authorship Attribution 

  Ellison, Kennedy (2019)

  Authorship attribution research has long focused primarily on determining authorship of books or other large texts (Mosteller and L. Wallace, 1963; Gamon, 2004). Only recently have scholars turned to using authorship ...
• Adverbs of Quantitication in Public Health Surveys 

  Guadalupe, Jason (2019)

  This thesis examines the function of adverbs of quantification through a comparison of questions found in two public health surveys, the data collected from each survey, and the subsequent allocations of healthcare ...
• The interplay of conversational implicature, speaker expectations, and NPI and positive anymore and yet 

  Dalton, Courtney (2019)

  This paper accounts for the behavior of the temporal adverbs anymore and yet under the negative episternic verb doubt and under a class of verbs that I tenn rnirative emotive [actives (lvlEFs; emotive [actives conveying ...
• Colonial Valley Zapotec Effects on Bilingual Spanish 

  Metzger, Jaime (2019)

  Most linguistic research on Zapotec-Spanish language contact has centered on Spanish influences such as loanwords borrowed into Zapotec. The current state of the field fails to acknowledge the structural effects that ...
• Learning to Read without Sound: Literacy Across Deaf Poopulations 

  Norton, Temperance (2019)

  Multiple studies have shown that the best deaf readers are those who use sign language as their primary means of communication rather than an oral language. This thesis first seeks to answer the question of why this is ...
• The Limitations of English Language Ideology (LI) and Language Policy & Planning (LPP) in South Korea 

  Park, Nozomi (2019)

  "English Fever" is an ongoing phenomenon in South Korea that represents the strong obsession for English language proficiency through education. The growing prevalence of a foreign language is surprising considering South ...
• Gapping through the Lens of Sentence Parsing 

  Qi, Davy (2019)

  In this thesis, I first discuss how generative grammar and categorical grammar have attempted to accommodate the phenomenon of gapping. I identify problems of over-generation and self-consistencies in existing approaches ...
• Referential Predictability and Topicality Diverge in Implicit Causality 

  Guan, Shuang (2019)

  Intuitively, two important discourse properties of referents, referential predictability and topicality, seem to be related; given that a referent is topical, we expect it to be re-mentioned in the following discourse, ...
• Distilling Knowledge from Wikipedia for Augmented Speech Recognition 

  Warner, Tai Vongsathorn (2019)
• The fluidity of foreign language instruction; an intersection of personal teaching pedagogy and proposed second language teaching (SLT) principles 

  Queen, Elizabeth Umutesi (2019)

  The number of second language teaching methods is increasing fast enough that some theories risk becoming obsolete before being practiced. However, a number of second language researchers have noted that the road from ...
• Ternary Feet in Optimality Theory 

  Nandor, Charis (2019)

  If you've ever studied Shakespeare, you know that Shakespeare uses iambic pentameter. Generally, it alternates weak and strong beats, creating a rhythm that sounds like duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duhDUH- duh-DUH-duh-DUH. This feels ...
• Defining Language in the Wake of Primate Language Research 

  Meyer, Hanna L. (2019)

  This text examines language as it is used in the animal language debate through pragmatic and structural linguistic perspectives on primate language research. The surge of primate language studies in America in the 1970's ...
• Speech Act Intensification in Mandarin 

  Kim, Juhyae (2019)
• Linguistic Landscape Analysis of La Plaza de Ponchos in Otavalo, Ecuador 

  Katz, Rebekah (2019)

  Using Google Street View, I examine the Linguistic Landscape of La Plaza de Ponchos, an openair tourist market in Otavalo, Ecuador to understand linguistic attitudes of Kichwa, a language indigenous to the region that ...
• #MeToo, Discursive Injustice, and Shifting Social Norms: A Linguistic Case Study of Commonwealth v. William Henry Cosby Jr. 

  Izes, Amanda (2019)

  This paper explores the effect of the #MeToo movement on sexual assault discourse and social norms in the United States through a case study of Commonwealth v. William Henry Cosby Jr., a trial that occurred both before ...
• Applying Moral Politics Theory to the 2018 Midterms 

  Gutierrez-Prado, Erick (2019)

  This paper will begin with an abbreviated overview of the history of political polarization in the 1900s. First, it will suggest that polarization is in fact a real phenomenon by citing the D-NOMINATE method of measuring ...

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