Linguistics Tri-College 2022

Class of 2022

Em Groves, Bryn Mawr College

An Acoustic Analysis of Stress in Chuvash

Jiangxue Han, Bryn Mawr College

Mitigating Racial Bias in Social Media Hate Speech Detection [PDF]

Rachel Annette Holland, Bryn Mawr College

Yasashii Nihongo And the Pursuit of Mutual Intelligibility

John M. Jayasankar, Haverford College

Evaluating the Existence and Nature of the Critical Period Hypothesis in Second Language Acquisition [PDF]

CHAN HEE JEONG, BRYN MAWR College

The Roles Konglish Plays in the Korean American Community [PDF]

Yiying Jiang, Swarthmore College**

Tonal Adaptation in Mandarin-English Code-Switching [PDF]

Eloise Kadlecek, Bryn Mawr College

Yiddish Language and Digital Spaces

An Examination on the Effectiveness of Twitter, Facebook, Zoom, and Other Online Platforms to Promote the Yiddish Language [PDF]

BENJAMIN KLAMKA, HAVERFORD College

"Creating fun": Humor and Storytelling in Communicative Foreign Language Teaching [PDF]

Naomi Bilonda Kalombo, Haverford College

An Investigation Into the Relationship Between Gender and Women’s Language Using Emails Sent By College Students to Professors in 2021

Mariella Levy, BRYN MAWR College

Debate on the Class Status of Mandarin Chinese Adjectives & Verbs: An Empirically-Based Evaluation + A Comparison of Stacking Behaviors [PDF]

Mia Limmer, Swarthmore College***

German’s Gender Gap: A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Gender-Innovative Nouns [PDF]

Savannah Grace McDonald, Bryn Mawr College

Bella Merchant, Bryn Mawr College

“The One Where Everybody Says LIKE”: A Corpus Linguistics Study of the Use of the Word LIKE in American Sitcoms (1982-2017) [PDF]

Vinny Ong, Bryn Mawr College

Bilingualism in America Supporting Bilingual Learners in the American Education System [PDF]

Luca Poxon, swarthmore college

Im certainly no language police': Language, race, and identity negotiation among White k-8 teachers

Martin Rakowszczyk, Swarthmore College

Syntax and Semantics of Wamesa Valency-Changing Operations [PDF]

Elizabeth Resendiz, Swarthmore College

Enora Rice, bryn mawr college

Towards Effective Machine Translation For a Low-Resource Agglutinative Language: Karachay-Balkar [PDF]

Laura Elizabeth Rodgers, Bryn Mawr College

Language Inhibition in Bimodal Bilingualism

Liam Santry, Swarthmore College

Constructing and Interpreting Reduplicative Word Compounds in Japanese

Anatole Shukla, Swarthmore College

Spelling it Out: Accepting and Recontextualizing Traditional East Slavic Understandings of Nature and Maladies as Expressed in Zagovory from Polesia [PDF]

Duc Trinh, Haverford College

Negation Learning in Transformer-based Neural Machine Translation Models [PDF]

Gemma Van Nice, Bryn Mawr College

Testing Theories of Slurs [PDF]

Ceci G. Williamson, Swarthmore College

Geospatial Modelling and Linguistics: What Can Maps Tell Us About Language? [PDF]

*2022 Senior Thesis Award Winner in Applied Linguistics

**2022 Senior Thesis Award Winner in Experimental Linguistics

***2022 Senior Thesis Award Winner in Theoretical Linguistics