Theses from 2024
Controlling Emotional Text to Speech Using Complex Adverbial Phrases, Zainab T. Akande
Factors Affecting Pretonic Deletion in English Syllables: A Corpus Study, Whitney Barnett-Rhodes
Expanding the Corpus of Vocalized Hebrew Text: Compiling an Unvocalized Text Corpus and Building an Online Interface for Vocalization Annotation, Rachel Shanblatt Bloch
Diaspora Documentation of West Albay Bikol, Nhia Borja
What the Debate about Spanish Gender-Inclusive Forms Reveals Regarding Ideological Beliefs about Language and Authority, Jalitza Gutierrez
Consonant (De)gradation in Ingrian?, Andrea M. Harrison
Discourse Analysis of Ethnonyms for Black Italians on YouTube, Kaithlyn Massiah
Prosodic Marking of Focus in Autistic and Neurotypical Adults, Nishtha N. Trivedi
How Do We Learn What We Cannot Say?, Daniel Yakubov
Theses from 2023
Applying Linguistics to the Adult ESOL Classroom: A Guide for ESOL Teachers in Community Centers, Lenore Costello
Towards Interpretable Machine Reading Comprehension with Mixed Effects Regression and Exploratory Prompt Analysis, Luca Del Signore
Neural Network vs. Rule-Based G2P: A Hybrid Approach to Stress Prediction and Related Vowel Reduction in Bulgarian, Maria Karamihaylova
Topics for He but not for She: Quantifying and Classifying Gender Bias in the Media, Tyler J. Lanni
Language of the Enemy: Impacts of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War on Linguistic and National Identity Paradigms in Ukraine, Julia Panter
A Sentiment Analysis of "Filipinx" on Twitter Using a Multinomial Naïve Bayes Classification Model, Clarisse Taboy
Pronunciation Ambiguities in Japanese Kanji, Wen Zhang
Theses from 2022
Does a Neural Network Inflect Spanish Verbs in a Human-Like Way?, Elizabeth Garza
A Study of Entrainment in Speech as a Possible Predictor of Perceived Trust, Mariana Graterol Fuenmayor
Gender-Informed Features of Film Reviews: A Statistical Linguistic Analysis, Matthew Kadish
A Machine Learning Approach to Text-Based Sarcasm Detection, Lara I. Novic
Covert Determiners in Appalachian English Narrative Declarative Sentences, William Oliver
From Sesame Street to Beyond: Multi-Domain Discourse Relation Classification with Pretrained BERT, Isaac R. Raff
Methods in Reverse Transliteration of English Loanwords in Japanese, Yuying Ren
Predicting Stress in Russian using Modern Machine-Learning Tools, John Schriner
Examining the Linguistic Ideology "Throaty Sounds Are Bad for Performers": The History of Negative Attitudes Towards Glottal Stops and Laryngealization in English, Dayle M. Towarnicky
Expanding the Pronominal Account of Tense: A Reexamination of the Double Access Reading in English, Brynne E. Wilkinson
Theses from 2021
Evaluating the Role of Gender in Dementia-Related Language Deficiencies, Kelsey Bourque
Predicting Stock Price Movements Using Sentiment and Subjectivity Analyses, Andrew Kirby
From an Art to a Science: Features and Methodology in Computational Authorship Identification, Jonathan I. Manczur
The Production of Russian Vowels /i/ and /ɨ/ by Russian-English Bilingual Children, Evgeniya Maryutina
When Misclassification Is Misgendering: Gender Prediction in the Context of Trans Identities, Sean Miller
A Computational Study in the Detection of English–Spanish Code-Switches, Yohamy C. Polanco
Detection and Morphological Analysis of Novel Russian Loanwords, Yulia Spektor
Computational Representation of Russian Aspectual Morphology with a Focus on Perfective Prefixation, Natalia Tyulina
Theses from 2020
From the Unspoken to the Verbalized: Different Ways of Communication and their Relationship to Culture in a Traditional Lakota Narrative "Ikto na wičhá ha kiŋ”, or “Ikto and the Racoon Skin”, Liliana R. Boladz-Nekipelov
Does the Word "Chien" Bark? Representation Learning in Neural Machine Translation Encoders, Emily Campbell
Processing Coercion in a First, Non-Dominant Language: Mandarin-English Heritage Bilinguals, Christina N. Dadurian
Doing Away With Defaults: Motivation for a Gradient Parameter Space, Katherine Howitt
Genderlects in Social Media, Alina Korovatskaya
Inferring Research Fields in Administrative Records Using Text Data, Ekaterina Levitskaya
Tones in Shupamem Reduplication, Magdalena Markowska
Acquisition Orders and Instructional Sequences: A Case Study of Russian Textbooks, Olga Ozhiganova
On the Temporal Interpretation of Epistemic Modals: Evidence from Palestinian Arabic, Alaa M. Sharif
Testing the Perceptual Magnet Effect in Monolinguals and Bilinguals, Michael C. Stern
Phonologically-Informed Speech Coding for Automatic Speech Recognition-based Foreign Language Pronunciation Training, Anthony J. Vicario
Ghost Peppers: Using Ensemble Models to Detect Professor Attractiveness Commentary on RateMyProfessors.com, Angie Waller
Mitigating Gender Bias in Neural Machine Translation Using Counterfactual Data, Alan Wong
Knowledge of the Present Perfect by Albanian/English Bilinguals, Erjon Xholi
Analysis of PRO-drop Errors in L2 English by L1 Spanish Speakers, Marcos R. Ynoa
Theses from 2019
The Effects of Language Background and Foreign Accent on Listening Comprehension, Sita Carraturo
Demographic Factors as Domains for Adaptation in Linguistic Preprocessing, Sara Morini
Generative Adversarial Networks and Word Embeddings for Natural Language Generation, Robert D. Schultz Jr
Heritage Speaker and Late Bilingual L2 Relative Clause Processing and Language Dominance Effects, LeeAnn S. Stevens
The Perception of Mandarin Tones in "Bubble" Noise by Native and L2 Listeners, Mengxuan Zhao
Theses from 2018
Describing Doggo-Speak: Features of Doggo Meme Language, Jennifer Bivens
Purepecha Aspirated Consonants and Their Phonetic Variants, Lluvia Camacho Cervantes
The Social Perception of Three Features of New York City English, Giacomo Castronovo Jr.
Speech Perception in “Bubble” Noise: Korean Fricatives and Affricates By Native and Non-native Korean Listeners, Jiyoung Choi
English Influence on L2 Speakers’ Production of Palatalization and Velarization, Jennifer C. Gabriele
Recursive Neural Networks for Semantic Sentence Representation, Liam S. Geron
Input and Output in the Acquisition of Russian as a Heritage Language During the Third Year of Life, Ekaterina V. Kistanova
Intergroup Variability in Personality Recognition, Arundhati Sengupta
Revisiting Lockhart: A Case for a Conditional Operator, Eric J. Tsai
Theses from 2017
Aspects of Quantifier Float in Thai, Khanin Chaiphet
Spatial Prepositions in Spanish, Carolina Fraga
From Rochel to Rose and Mendel to Max: First Name Americanization Patterns Among Twentieth-Century Jewish Immigrants to the United States, Jason H. Greenberg
A Sentiment Analysis of Language & Gender Using Word Embedding Models, Ellyn Rolleston Keith
ES-ESA: An Information Retrieval Prototype Using Explicit Semantic Analysis and Elasticsearch, Brian D. Sloan
A Discussion of Delimitative in Mandarin Chinese, Qi Zhang
Theses from 2016
Infixer: A Method for Segmenting Non-Concatenative Morphology in Tagalog, Steven R. Butler
Processing Filler-Gap Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese: An Effect of Language Exposure?, Stanley Chen
Nondescript: A Web Tool to Aid Subversion of Authorship Attribution, Robin Davis
Utilizing Linguistic Context To Improve Individual and Cohort Identification in Typed Text, Adam Goodkind
An Evaluation of POS Taggers for the CHILDES Corpus, Rui Huang
Event Parsing In Narrative: Trials And Tribulations Of Archaic English Fairy Tales, Rebecca Lovering
An ERP Study of Sensory-Linguistic Processing in the Context of ASD Research, Larissa R. Miller
An Examination of Cross-Domain Authorship Attribution Techniques, Maxwell B. Schwartz
Voicing the Other: Mock AAVE on Social Media, Hanna L. Smokoski
Theses from 2015
/n/:/r/ Correspondences in Albanian Dialects: Understanding the n>r Sound Change, Katie Albany
Techniques for Automatic Normalization of Orthographically Variant Yiddish Texts, Yakov Peretz Blum
Vocabulary Through Affixes and Word Families - A Computer-Assisted Language Learning Program for Adult ELL Students, Magdalena Kieliszek
Syntactic Constraints and Social Uses of Greek-English Intrasentential Codeswitching, Despina Stefanou Malliaroudakis
Obstruent Voicing and Tone in Siklis Gurung, Danielle Ronkos
The Incidence and Evolution of Palatalized Consonants in Latvian, Linda Zalite
Theses from 2014
The Influence of Pseudo-relatives on Attachment Preferences in Spanish, David Branco-Moreno
The Inner Workings of Text Summarization Systems, Hope Cotton
HUU-FA THESIS DAT?: A Syntactic Analysis of Possessive Jamaican Creole Possessive WH-elements, Toni Ashlie Foster
Canvas: A fast and accurate geometric sentence alignment system using lexical cues within complex misalignment settings, Hussein M. Ghaly
Representational Implications of the Phonologization of Contour Tones, Benjamin Kirkland Macaulay
Echolocation: Using Word-Burst Analysis to Rescore Keyword Search Candidates in Low-Resource Languages, Justin Richards
Some complexities in English article use and acquisition, Victoria Somogyi
Understanding Doubly Center-Embedded Sentences Through Contrastive Focus, Ashley Caroline Thorne