Undergraduate Research in Linguistics
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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
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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
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2020/price_zaccari_poster.jpg)
ZOE PRICE & LYNDSAY ZACCARI
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Beyond a Face: Replication of Rubin 1992
Undergraduate Research Fall Symposium 2020
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2020/johnston_schoenfeld_poster.jpg)
ASPEN JOHNSTON & LUCY SCHOENFELD
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Changing Sentiments - The Changing Nature of Reverse Linguistic Stereotyping
Undergraduate Research Fall Symposium 2020
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2020/saunders_group.jpg)
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
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2020/petersen_group_poster.jpg)
JON HUNT, ELENA ORREGO, MARCEL PETERSEN
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Undergraduate Research Fall Symposium 2020
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2020/hogan_poster.jpg)
TARA HOGAN & REBECCA RIVAS
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Undergraduate Ethnocentrism: Replication of Rubin (1992)
Undergraduate Research Fall Symposium 2020
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2020/hardy_group_poster-scaled.jpg)
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
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2020/granger_paxton_poster.jpg)
CHRIS GRANGER & AUDREY PAXTON
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Undergraduate Research Fall Symposium 2020
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2020/chavez_bergeson_poster-scaled.jpg)
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 - The relationship between listener attitudes and the comprehension of nonnative-accented speech](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/julia-v.jpeg)
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 - 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](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/cailey-lloyd.jpg)
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 - Vowel Harmony in Abkhaz](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/jackie-jolley.jpg)
Jackie Jolley
Faculty Mentor: Aaron Kaplan
Vowel Harmony in Abkhaz
![Zane Bellows - Affixation in a McWorld](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/zane-bellows.jpg)
Zane Bellows
Faculty Mentor: Scott Jarvis
Affixation in a McWorld
![Austin Buttars - The language of Consent](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/austin-buttars.jpg)
Austin Buttars
Faculty Mentor: Scott Jarvis
The Language of Consent
![Billy Finlay - The online processing of phonological cohorts](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/billy-finlay.jpg)
Billy Finlay
Faculty Mentor: Shannon Barrios
The online processing of phonological cohorts
![Billy Finlay - The online processing of phonological cohorts](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/tyler-laws.jpg)
Tyler Laws, Paul Olea, Amanda Goodner
Faculty Mentor: Edward Rubin
Variations in phonology across musical genres
![Tyler Laws - Differences in voice onset time in Spanish between first language, second language, and heritage speakers](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/tyler-laws-2.jpeg)
Tyler Laws
Faculty Mentor: Mary Ann Christison
Differences in voice onset time in Spanish between first language, second language, and heritage speakers
![Cailey Lloyd - The role of written input in the adult acquisition of L2 voicing alternations: Evidence from perception](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/cailey-lloyd.jpeg)
Cailey Lloyd
Faculty Mentor: Shannon Barrios
The role of written input in the adult acquisition of L2 voicing alternations: Evidence from perception
![Julia Vonessen - The impact of listener attitudes on the comprehension of nonnativeaccented speech](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/julia-vonessen.jpeg)
Julia Vonessen
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
The impact of listener attitudes on the comprehension of nonnativeaccented speech
![Maison Evensen - Plosive Aspiration of Bilingual Children](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/maison-evenson.jpg)
Maison Evensen
Faculty Mentor: Tanya Flores
Plosive Aspiration of Bilingual Children
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/placegolder.jpg)
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, Stacie Chadwick L2 Phrasal Verbs: Optimizing Testing to Inform Pedagogical Models](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2018/hoxer-buttlars-chadwick.jpg)
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](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2018/earl-kerr.jpg)
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](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2018/colledge-hawkins.jpg)
Keaton Colledge, Alyssa Hawkins
An analysis of semantic shift in proto-indo-European congantes in Swedish and Greek
![Billy Finlay, Julia Vonessen (Rachel Hayes-Harb) Acoustic features of vowels in clear and conversational speech: A partial replication of Ferguson and Quene (2014)](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2018/finlay-vonessen.jpg)
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](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2018/bekter-bocanegra-mumm.jpg)
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](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2018/benzmiller-liuzzi-robb.jpg)
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](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2018/petersen-ward.jpg)
David Petersen, Heidee Ward
Perceived Importance as a Factor in Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition
![Lauren Brocious (Rachel Hayes-Harb) L2 orthographic input and the three-way Korean consonant contrast](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2018/brocious.jpg)
Lauren Brocious
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
L2 orthographic input and the three-way Korean consonant contrast
![Alexander J. Cipro (Rachel Hayes-Harb) Effects of repeated evaluation on acceptability rating of sentences: A partial replication of Zervakis & Musaka (2012)](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2018/cipro.png)
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 (Rachel Hayes-Harb) VOTs of Voiced and Voiceless Stops in Spanish and English: a Partial Replication of Fledge and Eefting.](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2018/kaiser.jpg)
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 (Rachel Hayes-Harb) Experiments on the Acceptability and Possible Readings of Questions Embedded Under Emotive-Factives: A Partial Replication of Cremers and Chemla (2012)](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2018/shwartz.jpg)
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 (Shannon Barrios) The role of lexical cues in the acquisition of L2 allophonic variants](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2018/rodriguez.jpg)
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](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2018/tuttle.jpg)
Luke Tuttle
Effects of Marked Intonation on a Restricted Scope Configuration
National Conference on Undergraduate Research.
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/placegolder.jpg)
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, and Eve Olson presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 4th.](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2017/jessen-ng-rodriguez-olson.jpg)
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 (Rachel Hayes-Harb) Voice Onset Time in Arabic and English Stop Consonants](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2017/olson.jpg)
Eve Olson
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Voice Onset Time in Arabic and English Stop Consonants
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/placegolder.jpg)
Elizabeth Nakashima
Faculty Mentor: Johanna Watzinger-Tharp
Reclamation of Negative Speech in the LGBTQ+ Community
![Eve Olson (Rachel Hayes-Harb) Voice Onset Time in Arabic and English Stop Consonants](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2016/olson.jpg)
Eve Olson
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Voice Onset Time in Arabic and English Stop Consonants
![Anna Deakins (Prof. Benjamin Slade) A Syntactic and Semantic Account of Repetitives](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2016/anna-deakins.jpg)
Anna Deakins
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Benjamin Slade
A Syntactic and Semantic Account of Repetitives
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/placegolder.jpg)
Matthew Halverson
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Investigating Bilingual advantage in discrimination of non-native voicing/aspiration contrasts in Thai stops
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/placegolder.jpg)
Yuka Muratani
Faculty Mentor: Abby Kaplan
Transparadigmatic anti-homophony
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/placegolder.jpg)
Jeffrey Green
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
The influence of L1 and L2 on perceptual VOT boundaries in initial-stage L3
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/placegolder.jpg)
Jessica Larsen
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Native English speaker Perception of Arabic Emphatic Contrasts & the effects of Vowel Context
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/placegolder.jpg)
Robert Capps
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Determining effective ESL instruction strategies for pre-literate adults
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/placegolder.jpg)
Jamie Johnson
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb
Intelligibility of Bosnian-accented English speech
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/placegolder.jpg)
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
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/placegolder.jpg)
Jessica Loveland
Faculty Mentor: Mary Ann Christison
Learning Styles of Teachers and Students in a Secon Language Classroom
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Eve Olson
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harbn
Voice Onset Time in Arabic and English Stop Consonants
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/placegolder.jpg)
Joselyn Rodriguez, Jenica Jessen, Sara Ng
Faculty Mentor: Abby Kaplan
Musical Evidence for Syllabification of Highly Moraic Structures in English
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/placegolder.jpg)
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/placegolder.jpg)
Maison Evensen
Faculty Mentor: Tanya Flores
Plosive Aspiration of Bilingual, Hard-of-Hearing Children
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/placegolder.jpg)
Tyler Watson Laws
Faculty Mentor: Dr. MaryAnn Christison
Voice Onset Time in Young Spanish-English Bilinguals
![Zane Bellows (Edward Rubin) Bulgarian: Null Subject Classification Nate Schwartz (Ed Rubin) Inter-lingual errors among English and Japanese L2 learners Maison Evenson and Caiti Hunting](/_resources/images/research/undergrad-research/2019/placegolder.jpg)
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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