Linguistics Tri-College Class of 2015

Jocelyn Adams, Swarthmore College
A Pragmatic Analysis of Crossword Puzzle Difficulty

Tess Amram, Swarthmore College
Aglab Khazad: The Secret Language of Tolkien's Dwarves

Robin Banerji, Haverford College
Huichol (Wixárika) Word Accent: Typology, Interactions, and Implications

Madeleine Booth, Swarthmore College
A Preliminary Sketch of Yokoim Phonology and Morphology

Gabriela Campoverde, Swarthmore College

Erika Cancio-Bello, Swarthmore College

Jacob Collard, Swarthmore College
The Linguistic Effects Of Language Regulation

Ashley Dimond, Bryn Mawr College
The echoes of success: linguistic features of successful persuasion.

Zhiyin Ding, Bryn Mawr College
A vanishing language: Shanghainese

Raymond Elias, Swarthmore College

Nadeen Hamza, Swarthmore College
Dislabeled: Watching Stories of the Malagasy Deaf

Mariana Irby, Bryn Mawr College
Soft, Sweet and Melodious: Attitudes of Brazilian Portuguese Speakers Toward Their Language

Alexandra Mannix, Bryn Mawr College
Perspectives on Language Documentation, Conservation and Revitalization: case studies from Oaxaca, Mexico and Zapotec Talking Dictionaries.

Callan McNulty, Swarthmore College

Peter Nilsson, Swarthmore College
A Snowball Sampling Approach for Studying Digital Minority Languages

Rehana Omardeen, Swarthmore College
A Preliminary Look into the Efficacy of Bilingual ASL-English EBooks

Margaret Perkoff, Haverford College

Elizabeth Peters, Haverford College
What's in a Name: Toponyms as Linguistic Data for Historical Comparison

Kelley Riffenburgh, Haverford College
Effects of Language Attitudes on Education in Arusha

Dyan Rizzo-Busack, Swarthmore College
The Lazy Giant: A Mokilese Myth in Conversation

Miranda Stewart, Swarthmore College
It All Begins with YOU: Space, Movement, and Bridge-Building in ASL Dance

Elisabeth Tawa, Swarthmore College
What’s the right (hemisphere) way to think about metaphor?

Leslie Tjing, Haverford College
Hedging Discourse: Implications of Federal Reserve Policy Rhetoric

Tamsin True-Alcala, Swarthmore College

Jay Wu, Swarthmore College
'On this Side': The Production, Progression, and Potential of Cisgender