Seven linguistics majors and minors participated in the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum this year. Congratulations to them, and thanks to the faculty and graduate students who participated as judges!
Majors:
Ethan Hill (Advisors-Mike White; Eric Fosier-Lussier)
Generating disambiguating paraphrases for use in crowdsourced judgements of meaning
Christine Prechtel (Advisor-Cynthia Clopper)
Effects of gender and regional dialect on uptalk in the American Midwest
Shannon Melvin (Advisor-Cynthia Clopper)
Gender variation in creaky voice and fundamental frequency
Erin Luthern (Advisor-Cynthia Clopper)
Variation in glottalization at prosodic boundaries in clear and plain lab speech
Christopher Rourke (Advisor-Mary Beckman)
Individual differences in Japanese stop and fricative length: The relationship between production and perception
Minors:
Lauren Boyce (Advisors-Rachael Holt; Susan Nittrouer; Aaron Moberly)
Optimizing frequency channels in cochlear implants
Riley DeBacker (Advisors-Ryan Harrison; Eric Bielefeld)
Long term effects of the synergistic interaction of cisplatin and noise
