Undergraduate Research in Linguistics
Collaborate with Linguistics faculty on cutting-edge research in Linguistics!
To get started, make an appointment with the Undergraduate Research Advisor in the Office of Undergraduate Research.
Linguistics Undergraduate Student Research - 2023
Casey Miller
Faculty Mentor: Aniello De Santo
Mathematical Models of Tone in Thai Reduplication Patterns
Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research 2023
Jacob Johnson
Faculty Mentor: Aniello De Santo
Tool-Assisted Induction of Multiple-Input Tier-Based Strictly Local Languages
Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research 2023
Britta Bolander
Faculty Mentor: Aniello De Santo
Problematizing Machine Learning's Cognitive Metaphor: Implications and Alternatives
UT Dallas 2023
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Hallie Allan
Faculty Mentor: Aniko Csirmaz
Noun Incorporation in Crow: An Assessment of Various Approaches
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2020
Mckenzie Cowan, Lindsi Burr, Frances Hina Goldsmith
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Intelligibility, Comprehencibility, and Accentedness in L2 Speech
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2020
Maison Evensen & Caiti Hunting
Faculty Mentor: Shannon Barrios & Rachel Hayes-Harb
The Influence of Written Input on World Learning: Mandarin and Native English Speakers
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2020
Julia Vonessen
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
The Relationship Between Listener Attitudes and the Comprehension of Nonnative-Accented Speech
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2020
ZOE PRICE & LYNDSAY ZACCARI
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Beyond a Face: Replication of Rubin 1992
Undergraduate Research Fall Symposium 2020
ASPEN JOHNSTON & LUCY SCHOENFELD
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Changing Sentiments - The Changing Nature of Reverse Linguistic Stereotyping
Undergraduate Research Fall Symposium 2020
SIERRA JENSEN, JAREM SAUNDERS, COLE THORPE
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Impacts of Non-Language Factors on Listening Comprension: A Replication of Rubin (1992)
Undergraduate Research Fall Symposium 2020
JON HUNT, ELENA ORREGO, MARCEL PETERSEN
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Undergraduate Research Fall Symposium 2020
TARA HOGAN & REBECCA RIVAS
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Undergraduate Ethnocentrism: Replication of Rubin (1992)
Undergraduate Research Fall Symposium 2020
LUKE HARDY, RICARDO SHADE, CHRIS ZHOU
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Racial biases affecting undergraduates' complrehension of instrectors, replication of Rubin (1992)
Undergraduate Research Fall Symposium 2020
CHRIS GRANGER & AUDREY PAXTON
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Undergraduate Research Fall Symposium 2020
KAYLIN BERGESON & MARY CHAVEZ
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Effects of Instructor Ethnicity on Native English Speakers: Replication of Rubin (1992)
Undergraduate Research Fall Symposium 2020
Mckenzie Cowan, Lindsi Burr, Frances Hina Goldsmith
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Intelligibility, Comprehencibility, and Accentedness in L2 Speech
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2020
Maison Evensen & Caiti Hunting
Faculty Mentor: Shannon Barrios & Rachel Hayes-Harb
The Influence of Written Input on World Learning: Mandarin and Native English Speakers
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2020
Julia Vonessen
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
The Relationship Between Listener Attitudes and the Comprehension of Nonnative-Accented Speech
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2020
Julia Vonnessen
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
The relationship between listener attitudes and the comprehension of nonnative-accented speech
The Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching 2019 Conference.
Cailey Lloyd
Faculty Mentor: Shannon Barrios
The Role of Written Input in the Acquisition of a German-like Pattern of Final Devoicing by Native English Speakers: Evidence from a Listening Task
with Professors Barrios and Hayes-Harb at The Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching 2019 Conference.
Jackie Jolley
Faculty Mentor: Aaron Kaplan
Vowel Harmony in Abkhaz
Zane Bellows
Faculty Mentor: Scott Jarvis
Affixation in a McWorld
Austin Buttars
Faculty Mentor: Scott Jarvis
The Language of Consent
Billy Finlay
Faculty Mentor: Shannon Barrios
The online processing of phonological cohorts
Tyler Laws, Paul Olea, Amanda Goodner
Faculty Mentor: Edward Rubin
Variations in phonology across musical genres
Tyler Laws
Faculty Mentor: Mary Ann Christison
Differences in voice onset time in Spanish between first language, second language, and heritage speakers
Cailey Lloyd
Faculty Mentor: Shannon Barrios
The role of written input in the adult acquisition of L2 voicing alternations: Evidence from perception
Julia Vonessen
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
The impact of listener attitudes on the comprehension of nonnativeaccented speech
Maison Evensen
Faculty Mentor: Tanya Flores
Plosive Aspiration of Bilingual Children
Zane Bellows
Faculty Mentor: Edward Rubin
Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification
Nate Schwartz
Faculty Mentor: Edward Rubin
Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners
Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting
UROP Scholar: The influence of written input on the acquisition of Mandarin word forms by native English speakers
Devon Hoxer, Austin Buttlars, and Stacie Chadwick
L2 Phrasal Verbs: Optimizing Testing to Inform Pedagogical Models
Zachary Earl, Mackenzie Kerr
The Stroop effect in kana and kanji scripts
Keaton Colledge, Alyssa Hawkins
An analysis of semantic shift in proto-indo-European congantes in Swedish and Greek
Billy Finlay, Julia Vonessen
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Acoustic features of vowels in clear and conversational speech: A partial replication of Ferguson and Quene (2014)
Derek Betker, Katrina Bocanegra, Maranda Mumm
Code Correction: Breaking the code
Greydon Benzmiller, Joseph Ciucci Liuzzi, Amber Robb
Foul Play: Gender, Perception, & Profanity in 21st Century America
David Petersen, Heidee Ward
Perceived Importance as a Factor in Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition
Lauren Brocious
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
L2 orthographic input and the three-way Korean consonant contrast
Alexander J. Cipro
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Effects of repeated evaluation on acceptability rating of sentences: A partial replication of Zervakis & Musaka (2012)
Ellie A. Kaiser
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
VOTs of Voiced and Voiceless Stops in Spanish and English: a Partial Replication of Fledge and Eefting.
Nate Schwartz
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Experiments on the Acceptability and Possible Readings of Questions Embedded Under Emotive-Factives: A Partial Replication of Cremers and Chemla (2012)
Joselyn Rodriguez
Faculty Mentor: Shannon Barrios
The role of lexical cues in the acquisition of L2 allophonic variants
National Conference on Undergraduate Research at the University of Central Oklahoma.
Luke Tuttle
Effects of Marked Intonation on a Restricted Scope Configuration
National Conference on Undergraduate Research.
Alex Cipro
Faculty Mentor: Aniko Csirmaz
Spatial interpretation of the prepositions 'in' and 'within'
Justin Cho, Sarah Johnson, Shelley Miao
Faculty Mentor: Edward Rubin
Frequently made student errors in adult ESL language acquisitions
Daniel Razo
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Slade
Repetitives in Spanish, From Older Varieties to Modern Spanish
Jenica Jessen, Sara Ng, Joselyn Rodriguez, Eve Olson
Musical Evidence for Syllabification of Highly Moraic Structures in English
Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 4th
Eve Olson
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Voice Onset Time in Arabic and English Stop Consonants
Elizabeth Nakashima
Faculty Mentor: Johanna Watzinger-Tharp
Reclamation of Negative Speech in the LGBTQ+ Community
Eve Olson
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Voice Onset Time in Arabic and English Stop Consonants
Anna Deakins
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Benjamin Slade
A Syntactic and Semantic Account of Repetitives
Matthew Halverson
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Investigating Bilingual advantage in discrimination of non-native voicing/aspiration contrasts in Thai stops
Yuka Muratani
Faculty Mentor: Abby Kaplan
Transparadigmatic anti-homophony
Jeffrey Green
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
The influence of L1 and L2 on perceptual VOT boundaries in initial-stage L3
Jessica Larsen
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Native English speaker Perception of Arabic Emphatic Contrasts & the effects of Vowel Context
Robert Capps
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Determining effective ESL instruction strategies for pre-literate adults
Jamie Johnson
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Intelligibility of Bosnian-accented English speech
Zac Rasmussen
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Arabic Learning Distribution Study
Linguistics Undergraduate Students Published in the Undergraduate Research Journal.
Jessica Loveland
Faculty Mentor: Mamiko Suzuki
Sociolinguistic differences between Japanese and English as seen through English translations of manga
Sara Palomino
Faculty Mentor: Fernando Rubio
Diglossia: The case of Quechua languages and Spanish
Nolan Williams
Faculty Mentor: Abby Kaplan
Modeling self-organized category formation and selective attention training for fricative perceptual cues
Jessica Loveland
Faculty Mentor: Mary Ann Christison
Learning Styles of Teachers and Students in a Secon Language Classroom
Eve Olson
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harbn
Voice Onset Time in Arabic and English Stop Consonants
Joselyn Rodriguez, Jenica Jessen, Sara Ng
Faculty Mentor: Abby Kaplan
Musical Evidence for Syllabification of Highly Moraic Structures in English
Maison Evensen
Faculty Mentor: Tanya Flores
Plosive Aspiration of Bilingual, Hard-of-Hearing Children
Tyler Watson Laws
Faculty Mentor: Dr. MaryAnn Christison
Voice Onset Time in Young Spanish-English Bilinguals
Cailey Lloyd
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
What in the Fetching Heck is a mMun[ɂə]n: Replication Study of Eddington & Savage (2012)
Research in the Community
Students can sometimes receive credit for research they are doing in linguistics outside of the University. Please talk with the Linguistics advisor to see if you are eligible to receive credit for research you are doing.
*Contact the Department of Linguistics if you have a research opportunity you would like added for linguistics students.
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