Linguistics Tri-College Class of 2018

Elsher Abraham, Swarthmore College
The Problem with Mumble Rap
Stigmatization of Variant Production in Contemporary Mainstream Hip-Hop

Anita Brown, Bryn Mawr College
Quantitative Metathesis in Ancient Greek

Kate Collins, Swarthmore College
An Interface and Case Studies for Automatic Cognate Detection Methods

Abby Crum, Bryn Mawr College
The Intonational Phonology of Spoken Word Poetry

Sarah Malia Daguio, Haverford College

Joseph DeBrine
La mobilité du français régional

Jinjie Dong, Swarthmore College
Going Right? Double Down! Mandarin Right Dislocation

Sabea Evans, Haverford College
“Siliminga, hello!”
Negotiating Race, Place, and Language Ideologies in Post-Colonial Dalun, Ghana

James Faville, Haverford College
Coindexation under Attitude Complements

Rebecca Ford, Swarthmore College
How Black Male Identity is Sculpted Through Language in Light of Stigmatization and Stereotyping

Kathryn Goldberg, Bryn Mawr College
Lexical Tone and Melodic Pitch in the Music of Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec

Brianna Grenert, Bryn Mawr College
The Shape of Eta: Evolutionary Phonology and the Development of Attic Greek [ε:]

Clare Hanlon, Swarthmore College
Tokenization of Japanese Text
Using a Morphological Transducer

James Howard, Swarthmore College

Kai Xu Kandrysawtz, Swarthmore College
The Vitality of the Hangzhou Dialect of Mandarin

Audrey Lin, Bryn Mawr College
Sign Language Recognition: Defining Subunits by Quantified Handshapes with Hidden Markov Models

Shaina Mahoney, Bryn Mawr College
Apt to change: A Comparison of Handshape Aperture in Estonian and Latvian Sign Languages

Jacob Malin, Swarthmore College
FREE HANDSHAPE: A Proposed Mechanism for the Coining of Classifiers in ASL

Jake Mundo, Swarthmore College
Interpreting Minimalist Grammars

Lyra Piscitelli, Bryn Mawr College
A Pragmatic Account of Demands for Recognition

Lauren Pronger, Haverford College
Double Classifiers in Navajo Verbs

Diamond Ray, Bryn Mawr College

Mindy Reutter, Bryn Mawr College
"The Language of College": A Case Study of Code-switching and Identity Performance in Northern Appalachian University Communities of Practice

Benjamin Schmidt, Swarthmore College

Ziting Shen, Bryn Mawr College

Caroline Steliotes, Haverford College
Contrastive Focus on the Null Copula in African American English

Gretchen Trupp, Swarthmore College
Blogs are the Mirrors to Ourselves: Examining Emerging Semantic Conventions in an Online World

Huilei Wang, Bryn Mawr College
A Tale of BEI, JIAO, RANG, and GEI: a comparison and analysis of passive markers in Mandarin Chinese
David Zuckerman
FREE HANDSHAPE: A Proposed Mechanism for the Coining of Classifiers in ASL