Please join us on Thursday, May 7th, at the Deutsches Haus for our annual Linguistics Senior Thesis Symposium! Our 16 graduating seniors will present their year-long research projects, with topics ranging from Greek syntax to Shakespearean modality. Come celebrate our seniors, hear some fascinating presentations, and enjoy tasty refreshments.
This event will feature both slideshow presentations and poster presentations. The presentations kick off at 1 pm:
- Sarah Bryden – Friars at the Linguistic Frontier: Shift-Induced Interference and the Pastoral Varieties of Maya and Quechua
- Ben Parkhurst – An Acoustic Sketch of Kalmyk-Oirad
- Gio Piedimonte – A Comparison of the Effects of Clinician Language on Patient Comprehension and Satisfaction in Language Concordant Encounters
- Vasily Tselioudis – The Syntax and Semantics of Complementation in Modern Greek
- Lila Simchen – Will You? Grammatical Modality in Twelfth Night as Performance of Self
- Anya Chavez – Appropriating the Anti-Language: The Loss of Secrecy in Cryptolects
- Eliana Steele – A Sketch Phonology of Chochenyo
- Daniel Paige – Between Home, School and Everyday Life: Moroccan Arabic (Darija), Modern Standard Arabic, and Educational Diglossia in Morocco
- Lily Safire – El cubano es como una esponja’: Cuban Perceptions on Post-Revolution Linguistic Change on The Island
Starting at 3 pm, students will share their posters:
- Avonley Kliewer – Do We Trust the Machine? Perceptions of AI-Generated Advice Across Professional and Personal Contexts
- Iggy LaManna – Wringing the Rag: A Graph Rag Approach to Leveraging Linguistic Knowledge of Low Resource Languages Via Large Language Models
- Sofia Latkany – Gendered Dialogue in Film Screenplays
- Tin Lau – Aruamu Verbal Inflections
- Katie Liu – The Asian American Accent: What Does It Mean to ‘Sound Asian’?
- Jackson Shampanier-Bowen – The Language Of MAGA America: Right-Wing Language in the United States
- Lyla Taylor Jade – The Japanese Pitch Accent as a Sound Symbol
We look forward to seeing you there!
Zoom attendance is also available for presentations, and <[email protected]> is available for any technical support.
