Degrees Awarded in 2021-2022

Bachelors Degrees awarded with honors:

With distinction: Hailea Rose, Sierra Sanders

With high distinction: Story Ellis, Riley Grieves, Abraham Kassis, Matthew Luettgen, Jacob Owens

With highest distinction: Brian Corbin, Kiley Gardner, Alina Matthews, Anne McCarthy, Jessica Morris, Lydia Spellman

MAs & MSs awarded:

Juyeon Chung, Billy Dickson, Nils Hjornaes, Arielle Roadman, Kenneth Steimel.

PhD theses defended:

2021:

Sherman Charles.  Articulation and Acoustics of Lateral Speech Sounds.

2022:

Victor Alabi.  Discursive Constructions of Selected Yoruba Speech Acts: Apologies, Refusals, and Sympathies.

Kuan Yi Chao.  Vowel Production and Perception of Chinese-English Bilingual Children in an English Immersion School. 

Stefan Flego. Modeling the Role of Information-Theoretic Factors in the Emergence of Vowel Quality Mutation.

Feier Gao. The Mental Representation of Mandarin Tonal Alternations.

Chien-Han Hsiao.  Code-switching between Typologically Similar Languages: Data from Mandarin-Taiwanese Code-switching.

Patricia McDonough. Topics in Thangal Morphosyntax.

Departmental Honors

Undergraduate

Outstanding Senior Award:

Jessica Morris
Collin Steel

Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement Award:

Chloe Adkins
Story Ellis
Riley Grieves
Matthew Luettgen
Jessica Morris
Jacob Owens
Kevin Reidy
Tyler Richardson
Collin Steele

Phi Beta Kappa | Fall 2021:

Alina Matthews
Kevin Reidy
Colin Steele

Phi Beta Kappa | Spring 2022:

Evan Chapple
Dillon Gardner
Jessica Morris
Wei (David) Wang

Graduate

Fred W. Householder Best Research Paper Award:

Vance Holthenrichs.  “Semantically unifying the Slavic reflexive particle” written for Tom Grano’s course in advanced semantics.

Grayson Ziegler.  “Verbal Complex in Lutuv” written for Kelly Berkson’s course in advanced field methods.

Papers of Honorable Mention.

Amanda Bohnert.  “Diachronic Change in Syllable Structure from Proto-Kuki-chin to Lutuv: an OT Split-Margin Analysis,” written for Stuart Davis’ course in advanced phonology.

Amalia Robinson.  “Towards a holistic phonology of lenition in Chilean Spanish from the perspective of Optimality Theory” written for Malgorzata Cavar’s course in introductory phonology.

Arielle Roadman.  “A Diachronic Study of the Position of Adjectives in French,” written for Barbara Vance’s seminar in historical syntax.

Funding Awards

College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship: 

He Zhou.  In support of Treebanking and Cross-lingual Dependency Parsing for Xibe.

College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Research Fellowship: 

JC Wamsley.  In support of Topics in Hakha Lai Determination. 

Fred W. Householder Memorial Student Research Fund

Yuka Tashiro.  $160 in support of “Native English Listeners’ Perception of Ambiguous Speech Sounds.”

College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award

Anastasia Kuznetsova.  In support of her presenting “A finite-state morphological transducer for Paraguayan Guarani,” to the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of Computational Linguistics.

Samson Lotven. In support of his presenting “The Chin language research project: a collaborative research and documentation initiative in central Indiana”, to the Linguistic Society of America.

Robert Pugh.  In support of his presenting “A Syntactically Annotated Corpus of Western Sierra Puebla Nahuatl” to the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference.

Daniel Swanson.  In support of his presenting “A Universal Dependencies Treebank of Ancient Hebrew” to the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference.

Daniel A. Dinnsen AI Excellence-in-teaching Award: ($300):

Chien-Han Hsiao, for excellence in developing several different courses in multiple areas.