| Year |
Student |
Thesis Title |
Adviser |
| 2012 |
Kathleen Aston |
Don’t Touch Me With That Tone of Voice: An Investigation into Aspects of Audio-Tactile Integration |
Nycz |
| 2012 |
Laura Backus |
Mish Mash(i): The Syntax of sh and Negative Polarity Items in Moroccan and Egyptian Arabic |
Pearson |
| 2012 |
Jenny Calvert-Warren |
Smashing the Gender Binary: Suggestions for Sociolinguistic Research, and Some Acoustic and Perceptual Data |
Nycz |
| 2012 |
Elena Fernández Collins |
Intonation and Narrative Structure in Sirat Bani Hilal, an Arabic Oral Folk Epic |
Becker |
| 2012 |
Courtney Fraser |
And I Was Like :( : Emotive Features, Tone, and the Construction of Gender in Instant Messaging |
Becker |
| 2012 |
Samantha Grenrock |
The Metaphoricity of Nonce Compounds in Contemporary Poetry |
Becker |
| 2012 |
Ruth Linehan |
Is Upper-brow Raidió Anseo: An Analysis of the Use of English Discourse Markers in Irish-language Radio |
Pearson |
| 2012 |
David Mondello |
Variation of Primary Stress Placement in Southern East Cree |
Pearson |
| 2012 |
Stephen Paulsen |
Case and the Causee Argument: A Minimalist Approach |
Pearson |
| 2012 |
Sasha Puchalski |
To Its Instance: Poetic Orientations in Speech |
Nycz |
| 2012 |
Elizabeth Rutledge |
Left Behind? African American English and Dialect Bias in Standardized Testing |
Becker |
| 2012 |
Nina Umont |
Prosodic Features of Narrative-Style Jokes |
Nycz |
| 2012 |
Kathryn Wheeler |
“iM dA rEaLeSt U WiLL MeeT”: Constructing Black Linguistic Identity on Internet Dating Sites |
Becker |
| 2011 |
Makenzie Barron |
Exploring the Discourses of Marriage, Monogamy and Mao |
Becker |
| 2011 |
Margit Bowler |
The Spray/Load Verbal Alternation: Syntax and Subclasses |
Pearson |
| 2011 |
Mattias Lehman |
The Semantic Underpinnings of Syntactic Subcategorization: A Lexically Decompositional Approach to Distinguishing Classes of Ambitransitives |
Pearson |
| 2011 |
Lydda López |
Regias and Codeswitching: A Look Into Modern Identities Along the Mexican-American Border |
Becker |
| 2011 |
Rachel Mossey |
Sext Appeal: Effects of Linguistic Form on Non-Platonic Desire in Text Messaging |
Antonyuk-Yudina, Becker |
| 2011 |
JinYoung Park |
Microvariation in Ergative Alignment of Lhasa Tibetan and Amdo Tibetan |
Pearson |
| 2011 |
Altove Rowley |
Characterizing the Cartoon: Dialect, Race, and Gender in Disney |
Becker |
| 2011 |
Laura Sard |
Emphasis in Moroccan Arabic Loanwords from French |
Antonyuk-Yudina, Pearson |
| 2011 |
Samantha Seagaard |
Exploring Feminine Gender Construction "Inna Dancehall Style": A Lyrical Analysis of Jamaican Dancehall Music |
Becker |
| 2011 |
Anna Seymour |
The Prestige of a Californian Bob Dylan: Phonetic Variation in 90's Pop Music |
Antonyuk-Yudina, Becker |
| 2011 |
Samuel Shemitz |
Extending the Relative Clause Extended Complement Model |
Pearson |
| 2011 |
Robin Steitz |
To the Tune of the Schizophrenic Mode |
Antonyuk-Yudina, Brightman |
| 2011 |
Julia Von Holt |
Time and Space in American Sign Language: Examining Iconicity in Aspect Inflections and Temporal Deixis Through a Peircean Lens |
Becker |
| 2011 |
Henry White |
Villain, Victim, Rescuer: Government According to the President of the United States |
Pearson |
| 2011 |
Katherine Wu |
Lost in Translation: A Study on the Difference Between Linguistic Relativity and Framing |
Antonyuk-Yudina, Pearson |
| 2010 |
Jennifer Hawkins |
Retrying Scopes: A Study of Genre in the Revision of the Texas Science Curriculum, 2008-09, Or: How to Fight the Culture Wars |
Hibbard, Pearson |
| 2010 |
Lauren Banister |
Linguistic Representations of Ideology and Identity in the Context of Creative Communities and Interactive Art |
Pearson |
| 2010 |
Tara Barnett |
Language is a Life Full of Animals |
Hibbard |
| 2010 |
Jordan Frand |
The Construction of a Terrorist Attack: A Discourse Analysis of Media Representations of 9/11 and 11-M |
Antonyuk-Yudina |
| 2010 |
Matthew Hensley |
True North: Programmatic Desiderata for Contact Linguistics Based on Studies of French in Canada |
Pearson |
| 2010 |
Sarah Kantrowitz |
Rhythm and Synchrony: Mechanisms of Engagement, Collectivity, and Cooperation |
Pearson |
| 2010 |
Hilary McMahan |
An Application of Piercian Semiotics to Whorfian and Neo-Whorfian Linguistic Relativity |
Antonyuk-Yudina |
| 2010 |
Jane Myers |
Ropes of Sand: A Semiotic Analysis of Soviet and American Propaganda |
Hibbard |
| 2010 |
Amy Vaughan |
We Are Legion: The Linguistic Construction of Community on the Internet |
Antonyuk-Yudina |
| 2010 |
Gene Wicks |
Flirtation as a Genre of Desire in Language |
Hibbard |
| 2010 |
Francesca Mucciaccio |
"A Gaggle a' Y'ats" and Other Stories: Tracing the Effects of Ideologyon Language Change Through Indexical Formation in Y'at |
Brightman |
| 2010 |
Savannah Naffziger |
"No One Thinks of Margaret Thatcher as a Sweetheart": Stereotypical Femininity, Psychological Androgyny, and the Language of Female Politicians |
Hibbard |
| 2009 |
Lindsey Allen |
Iconicity in the Perception of Speech Rhythm |
Hibbard |
| 2009 |
Dustin Bowers |
Ojibwe Gender and Derivation: A Final Analysis |
Sabbagh |
| 2009 |
Peter Farago |
To Have and Have Not: Unifying Possession in the Sentential and Nominal Domains |
Sabbagh |
| 2009 |
Irina Gladkova |
In Her Image: Iconic Modalities Driving Law, Gender, and Cultural Perceptions of Rape |
Hibbard |
| 2009 |
Sarah Gould |
On the Hive Mind: Explorations in Social Semiotics |
Hibbard |
| 2009 |
Wes Hilton |
The Status of Remote Past BIN in Standard American English |
Becker |
| 2009 |
Katherine Judson |
The Legal Performative, Race, and the Modern Civil Rights Movement: A Study of the Battle Over Semiotic Production of Identity |
Sabbagh |
| 2009 |
Molly Lewis |
A Parallel Formulation of Whorfian and Neo-Whorfian Linguistic Relativity |
Hibbard |
| 2009 |
Will Pickett |
Language and the ‘White Horse’: Two Interpretations of the ‘Gongsun Longzi’ |
Becker |
| 2009 |
Aviva Raskin |
Japanese Women’s Language as a Covert Standard: A Case Study on the Speech of the Gothic-Lolita |
Sabbagh |
| 2008 |
Roslyn Burns |
Gender Stability in Germanic Languages: An Investigation of Plautdietsch in North America and Ingvaeonic Languages |
Pearson |
| 2008 |
Jessica Love-Nichols |
“Who Does He Think He’s Kidding?”: A Linguistic Analysis of John Kerry’s Perceived Inauthenticity in the 2004 Presidential Election |
Hibbard |
| 2008 |
Sarah Mitteldorf |
Where to Find the Missing: Ellipsis, Syntax, Semantics and Context |
Pearson |
| 2008 |
Eavan Moore |
English and Identity: Native Language, Global Language |
Pearson |
| 2008 |
Aurora Paulsen |
Resurrecting the Dead: Revisiting Benjamin Lee Whorf's Principle of Linguistic Relativity |
Hibbard |
| 2008 |
Erin Price |
Evidentiality in Quechua : A Systemic Functional Analysis |
Pearson, Hibbard |
| 2008 |
Ke Angie Wang |
The Brave and the Boldface: A Study of Prosody in Comic Books |
Hibbard |
| 2008 |
Margarett Waterbury |
Talk To Me: A Bakhtinian Approach to Addressivity and Dialogism in Political Speech |
Hibbard |
| 2007 |
Sahar Baharloo |
Words In Space: Is Word a Formal Unit in American Sign Language? |
Pearson |
| 2007 |
Susan Barlow |
An Alignment Analysis of High Tone Spreading in Shona |
Pearson |
| 2007 |
Justin Holguín |
The Status of Ergative Case in Basque: A Minimalist Approach |
Pearson |
| 2007 |
Meg Biser |
“A Mississippi Girl Don't Change Her Ways”: A Linguistic Approach to the Construction of Authenticity in Country Music |
Hibbard |
| 2007 |
Nick Callaway |
Judeo-Spanish and the Success of the Standard: A Case Study of Language Ideology's Role in Language Shift |
Hibbard |
| 2007 |
David Freas |
Imitation Thesis |
Hibbard |
| 2006 |
Jesse Hallett |
Lexical Semantics for Natural Language Processing |
Pearson |
| 2006 |
Eliah Hecht |
The Syntax and Semantics of Focuser “Like” |
Pearson |
| 2006 |
Robert Daly |
Language Revitalization and its Socio-Cultural Context: Chinook Jargon |
Hibbard |
| 2006 |
Leah Johnston |
Sheng and the City |
Hibbard |
| 2006 |
Alex Wallace |
The Linguistic Construction of Events and the Production of Knowledge: Reported speech and Translation in French Newspaper Reports |
Hibbard |
| 2006 |
Aurora Davis |
The Function of -mIş in Turkish |
Pearson |
| 2005 |
Roshni Gohil |
Possessive Constructions and the Morphology and Syntax of Noun Phrases in Turkish |
Pearson |
| 2005 |
Laura Jean Long |
Non-configurational Word Order in Russian |
Pearson |
| 2005 |
Kate Paddock |
The Prosodic Structure of Free Verse, Focusing on the Poetry of William Carlos Williams |
Pearson |
| 2005 |
Annelise Uhlig |
Language Acquisition, Creolization, and the Language Evolution Debate: A Critique of Derek Bickerton's “Proto-language” Hypothesis |
Pearson |
| 2005 |
Kirill Shklovsky |
Person Marking in Petalcingo Tzeltal |
Haviland |
| 2005 |
Meg Mitchell |
The Generation of Referring Expressions in Natural Language Processing |
Haviland |
| 2005 |
Heather Campbell |
Jokoa eta Jolas: Policy Instillation versus Playful Improvisation in the Basque Language Movement |
Haviland |
| 2005 |
Mark Evans |
Rhythmic Asymmetry |
Haviland |
| 2004 |
Rene Acosta |
Case Conflation and Case Attrition in Indo-European Languages |
Pearson |
| 2004 |
Hannah Lynn |
Wh-questions in American Sign Language |
Pearson |
| 2004 |
Jessica Coon |
Roots and Words in Chol (Mayan): A Distributed Morphology Approach |
Aygen |
| 2004 |
Laurel Goldstein |
A Presentist Semantics for Tense |
Aygen, Hovda |
| 2004 |
Hester Serebrin |
Topic, Focus, and Object-Verb Order in Mandarin |
Pearson |
| 2004 |
Sarah Coffer |
To 'He' or not to 'He': The Linguistic and Social Implications of Gendered Pronouns in English |
Aygen |
| 2003 |
Jaiva Larsen |
Merge, Move, and Mate: Is Syntax an Evolutionary Epiphenomenon? |
Pearson |
| 2003 |
Nicholas Thornton |
Performative Differences of Gender in the Prosody of American English Speech |
Pearson |
| 2003 |
Richard von Duerckheim |
Information Structure in Egyptian Arabic |
Pearson |
| 2003 |
Chan MacDonald |
Language Planning and Language Policy: Socio-cultural Integration or Hegemony? The Case(s) of the Soviet Union |
Haviland |
| 2003 |
Natasha Milenkaya |
Stories and Storytellings |
Haviland |
| 2003 |
Natalie Tschechaniuk |
American Sign Language and Language Status: An Examination of the Conflict |
Haviland |
| 2002 |
Chris Flink |
A'unaS a't'sexsa nemi' a't'ssiin: Some Topics in the Inflectional Morphology of Sahaptin and Some Topics in Linguistics |
Pearson |
| 2002 |
Andrew Wallace |
Indexicality and Syntactic Register Variation in English |
Pearson |
