Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the Linguistics Department are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
Submissions from 2024
Mollie Choo, Linguistics (LING) 2024, Developing a Gradient Representation Using Stochastic Harmonic Grammar Model Tools
Margaret Clauss, Linguistics (LING) 2024, Spilling the Beans on Idioms: A Syntactic Journey
Maika Danford, Linguistics (LING) 2024, Getting an ansā: The development and usage of English loanwords in Japanese
Alex Falk, Linguistics (LING) 2024, Mixed Structures and Mixed Feelings: The Case of Surzhyk
Jack Rizzo, Linguistics (LING) 2024, Possession, Existence, and Multifunctionality: The Case of Vietnamese Có
Submissions from 2023
Juliana Bachulis, Linguistics (LING) 2023, Phonological Approximation in Computer-Mediated Communication: Governance of Deletion and Lengthening in SMS
Lee Camp, Linguistics (LING) 2023, Breaking the Binary: Evaluating Gender Inclusivity in Neural Coreference Algorithms
Sophia Chuen, Linguistics (LING) 2023, The Role of Affect and Social Bias in Perception and Language Attitudes towards Chinese-accented English
Grace Farwell, Linguistics (LING) 2023, Third Language Acquisition: Investigating the Roles of L2 Proficiency, The Typological Primacy Model, and the L2 Status Factor Model on German Vowel Perception in L1 English, L2 French Individuals
McKenzie Henson, Linguistics (LING) 2023, Breaking Down the Distinction Between Noun Incorporation and Pseudo Noun Incorporation: An Examination of Ket
Gabriela Lazo, Linguistics (LING) 2023, Baby (Not Quite) Sign Language: A Comparative Analysis of ASL and Baby Sign Language Complexity and Ideologies
Tate Russell, Linguistics (LING) 2023, Null In Void: Can null resumptive pronouns fill L2 island gaps?
Lauren Witmer, Linguistics (LING) 2023, I've Eaten, Drank, and Slept: An Investigation of the Preterite in Place of the Participle
Submissions from 2022
Lucas Sass, Linguistics (LING) 2022, Checking Out Particle Verbs: A comparative Analysis of World Englishes
Elliot Stork, Linguistics (LING) 2022, How Does the World Englishes Paradigm Influence Convergence Rates in Speakers of Midwestern English? An Experimental Analysis
Jeffrey Witney, Linguistics (LING) 2022, Could You Might Tell Me What You Think: An Experiment in Double Modal Orderings
Submissions from 2021
Anna Grove, Linguistics (LING) 2021, Pedagogical Methods of Indigenous Language Revitalization and Second Language Acquisition in Dakotah
Tessa Heggie, Linguistics (LING) 2021, So (‘What’): A Review of Two WH-scope Marking Analyses as Applied to Vlach Romani and Hungarian
Emma Ismail, Linguistics (LING) 2021, A Minimalist Approach to Causative Structures in Dakota
Lizbeth A. Ramirez Gaytan, Linguistics (LING) 2021, Looking at Cross-Language Expressive Gaps in Spanish-English Bilinguals with Varying Linguistics Exposure: Study Proposal and Pilot Study
Risa Stiegler, Linguistics (LING) 2021, Tukted Taku Uƞ He? or, What is Where?: Dakota Wh- or T-Questions and Intervention Effects
Luna Yee, Linguistics (LING) 2021, Divergent Semantics of Reduplication in Present-Day Dakotah: Exploring the Intra- and Intergenerational Effects of Language Suppression
Submissions from 2020
Lily Peters, Linguistics (LING) 2020, The Role of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory in L2 Japanese Lexical Attrition
Daamir Robinson, Linguistics (LING) 2020, Morphological Variation in Turkic Languages
Sarah Steinke, Linguistics (LING) 2020, A Syntactic Analysis of Focus Concord Constructions in Okinawan and Ikema
Nyx Vazquez, Linguistics (LING) 2020, Minimizing Optimality: A Theoretical Approach to Understanding Information Structure
Kyra Wilson, Linguistics (LING) 2020, A Cross-Linguistic Overview of Allocutivity and its Syntactic Accounts
Alex Zhai, Linguistics (LING) 2020, The Dark /l/ Rises: A Markedness Differential Hypothesis Analysis of the Syllable Position Effect on Japanese Speakers’ Production of the English Dark /l/
Submissions from 2019
Yitong Chen, Linguistics (LING) 2019, Reflexive Constructions in Maltese
Nathaniel Chew, Linguistics (LING) 2019, Reanalyzing the Past: An Experimental Study on Non-standard -ed in Singapore Colloquial English
Kaitlyn Jeanette Hamers, Linguistics (LING) 2019, A Syntactic Account of Tense, Mood, and Aspect in the Haitian Creole Preverbal Marker System
James Smith, Linguistics (LING) 2019, Radical multilingualism in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Submissions from 2018
Leila Omar Awad, Linguistics (LING) 2018, Historical Explorations of the Modern Chinese Passive Construction
Daniel Deliyannides Brodkin, Linguistics (LING) 2018, Backward Control in Minangkabau
Anny Lei, Linguistics (LING) 2018, On the Non-existence of Japanese Internally-headed Relative Clauses: Puppet Head Noun no
Kelcie Malia Molina, Linguistics (LING) 2018, Tawkin Enikain at Sku: An Examination of Hawaiʻi Creole English in an Academic Setting
Abigail Lucille Sheldon, Linguistics (LING) 2018, Semantic Motivations and Consequences of Scrambling in Japanese
Anne Sophie Zanger, Linguistics (LING) 2018, All of Our [dʌdz] in a Row: Individual Differences in the Effects of Intervening Vowels on Consonant Assimilation
Submissions from 2017
Lydia Ding, Linguistics (LING) 2017, What's with 'why? On the non-existence of why-clefts in Nukuoro
Amanda Jin Yu Owensby, Linguistics (LING) 2017, Interpreting [e]: The Reformulation of a Gricean Framework in Understanding Null Categories in Mandarin Chinese
Submissions from 2016
Joshua Ryan Elmore, Linguistics (LING) 2016, Gender, Animacy, and Variable Constraints: An OT Analysis of Leísmo, Loísmo, and Laísmo
Alexander Richard Kulacki, Linguistics (LING) 2016, Dialectal Variation in German Verb Cluster Ordering
Ilana Joy Mishkin, Linguistics (LING) 2016, Ladino Copular Variation: A Case Study of Seattle Ladino Heritage Speakers
Dana Wells Spencer, Linguistics (LING) 2016, Il y a des problèmes ici: An analysis of current theories of preposition stranding through the lens of Canadian French
Submissions from 2015
Helena M. Howard, Linguistics (LING) 2015, Syllables? Sign me up! Defining and motivating the syllable in American Sign Language
Sarah Anne Milstein, Linguistics (LING) 2015, To be or not to be, that is the copula
Johanna Maren Hjelle Olsen, Linguistics (LING) 2015, Sarcasm Detection Using Grice's Maxims
Zachary Walter Richmond, Linguistics (LING) 2015, Appealing to a Higher Projection: Determining the Possibility of a Unified Analysis of Algonquian Relative Clauses
Submissions from 2014
Emily Suzanne Manahan, Linguistics (LING) 2014, At the College was Performed an Experiment: An Analysis of Locative Inversion and Unaccusativity
Karen Sue McCleary, Linguistics (LING) 2014, Pardon My French: Loanword Pronunciation and Language Prestige
Nicole Moriah Rhodes, Linguistics (LING) 2014, Clitic and Suffixes are Different: Accounting for one side of Turkish suspended affixation
Submissions from 2013
Francesca Giovanna Garcia, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Resolving lexical polysemy: "with" corpora & collocations
Scott Lewis Graber, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Words and Rules, Les Mots et Les Regles: The Dual Mechanism Model of Morphology in French
Tamarae Marie Hildebrandt, Linguistics (LING) 2013, An Examination of Turkish Scrambling in Single Wh-phrase Constructions
William Christopher Johnston, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Focus, Too, and Conjunction, Too: The Syntax and Semantics of Japanese mo-Coordination
Evan Robert Leibowitz, Linguistics (LING) 2013, The Verbhood of Mandarin ba and its Role in Resultative Constructions
Kyung Soo Liu, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Korean Vowel Harmony: An Optimality Theoretic Account
Andrew Thomas Peters, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Take a Chance on /d/: Mexican Spanish Spirantization and Probability in Optimality Theory
Johanna Amy Schmidt, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Motivating the Impoverishment: A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Deletion Processes in Agreement
Deborah A. Shapiro, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Morphological Acquisition or: How I Learned to Stop Overregularizing and Love the "Brought"
Submissions from 2012
Emily Rose Barter, Linguistics (LING) 2012, The Case for a Reanalysis of Case in Sinhala
Kellianne Ellen Bennett, Linguistics (LING) 2012, Syntax vs. Pragmatics and Grammaticality Judgments: A Perspective from Korean Honorification
Julia Hansell Clark, Linguistics (LING) 2012, From discord, find harmony: A new perspective on vowel harmony in Ainu
Julia Anne Larson, Linguistics (LING) 2012, SignWriting for American Sign Language: From Phoneme to Poem
Karl Snyder, Linguistics (LING) 2012, Russian Default Stress and the Effect of Lexically Weak Roots
Rochelle Zheng, Linguistics (LING) 2012, The Acquisition of Sound Symbolism in Japanese
Submissions from 2011
Edwin A. Avalos, Linguistics (LING) 2011, Nasal Spreading in Theory
Grace Elizabeth Lewis, Linguistics (LING) 2011, The Role of Language Discrimination in Mutual Exclusivity as shown by 2-yr-old Simultaneous Bilinguals
Alison Elizabeth Wechsler, Linguistics (LING) 2011, Morphological Decomposition in a Second Language: An Experimental Study of Spanish Participles
Submissions from 2010
Elizabeth Haworth Evison, Linguistics (LING) 2010, Topic, and Wa: Resolving the topic debate
Jennifer Krafft, Linguistics (LING) 2010, Syntactic Category Influence and Irregularity in Rendaku
Mikaela Lee Van Sistine, Linguistics (LING) 2010, Pragmatic Particles in Colloquial Malaysian English: Description and Analysis in a Politeness Theory Framework
Submissions from 2009
Rosalind Brayfield, Linguistics (LING) 2009, Daa gweyn Aa gweyn: questions and foci in the Belizean Creole
