The symposium will be held in room 3380 and the Varsity Theatre of the WSC (check schedule for specific information on room assignment. There will be no class in our regular classroom.
Each presentation is alloted 8 minutes. There will be a brief time for Q/A after all the presentations each day (not after each presentation).
If you will be using presentational software (e.g., powerpoint) please upload the files to this website first. If you have questions about this site, please see the announcement posted on Blackboard.
Please consult the following schedule for presentations to be given during the symposium.
| March 18 | Room 3380 WSC | Wilcox, Seth | Phonology | Turkish Phonology |
| McClanahan, Lia | Phonology | Speakers' Possible Use of Phonological Analysis in Identifying the Gender of Unfamiliar Names | ||
| Parker, Amy | Phonology | Sound Symbolism: Does an heroic Phoneme Exist? | ||
| Weir, Jason | Phonology | Are Sounds in Names Gender Based | ||
| Busby, Cathy | Sociolinguistics | Popularity vs. Association: Name Connotation | ||
| Tyler, Von | Sociolinguistics | Hawaiian Pidgin | ||
| March 20 | 3380 WSC | Young, Tyler | Phonology | To what extent are open and closed "e" and "o" in Portuguese predictable? |
| Davidson, Daniel | Sociolinguistics | Lithuania's Red Shadow: The tenacity of Russian in Lithuania's Society | ||
| Case, Ashley | Sociolinguistics | Do we Care-A-Lot? | ||
| Stout, Amanda | Usage | The Use of the Word "Stalwart" in Latter-Day Vernacular | ||
| Taggart, Mark | Sociolinguistics | Taboos in Airline Vocabulary | ||
| March 25 | 3380 WSC | Walker, Andrew | Sociolinguistics | Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary Hip Hop Music |
| Garver, Randy | Sociolinguistics | Republicans versus Democrats: Which side uses anecdotal stories more often? | ||
| Morris, Esther | Sociolinguistics | How Good is your College PC? | ||
| Price, Kristine | Sociolinguistics | Are non-standard dialects of English treated fairly in public schools? | ||
| Baum, Donny | Sociolinguistics | Ebonics in Education: An Effective Policy for Reading and Writing Development? | ||
| March 27 | Varsity Theatre | Allred, Ben | Bilingualism | Bilingual Children: Unnecessary Strain of Enormous Advantage |
| Eckerson, Meghan | Bilingualism | The Somewhat Backwards Bilingual Experience of a Deaf Child in America | ||
| Rowley, Russell | Bilingualism | Is L2 Acquisition more Effective During Child Development? | ||
| Zuzunaga, Danella | Bilingualism | Infancy and Bilingualism: Recommended or not? | ||
| Botelho, Janese | Bilingualism | Bilingualism in Young Children: Methods of Acquisition | ||
| April 1 | 3380 WSC | Austerman, Rebecca | Dialect | Identification of English Dialects by Non-Native English Speakers |
| Brinton, Melinda | Dialect | The Defining Moment: Language vs. Dialect | ||
| Turner, Ryan | Dialect | Hello World! Am I Using a Real Language? | ||
| Sperlein, Justin | Stylistics | Dialogue Over the Past Sixty Years | ||
| Fowler, Josh | Semantics | Arabic 'to be': Placeholder or Semantically Full? | ||
| April 3 | 3380 WSC | Paulukaitis, Adam | Phonetics | Voicing and Frication of Intervocalic Velar Stops: A New Feature of North American English? |
| Wilkinson, Jenna | Phonetics | Sarcasm: Is There a Pattern? | ||
| Rasband, Daniel | Morphology | The Epenthetic 'T' before Aspirated Consonants in Korean Morphology | ||
| Kim, Hyunju | TESOL | What is the Best Method for Teaching English Grammar? Teaching Grammar Alone vs. Teaching Grammar Through Situational Role Play | ||
| Hair, Caitlyn | L1 Acquisition | Motherese: Which method is best? | ||
| April 8 | 3380 WSC | Harrison, Tenille | L2 Acquisition | Baby Sign and its impact on First Language Acquisition |
| Lewis, Annie | L2 Acquisition | Untitled | ||
| Ming, Yue | L2 Acquisition | Teaching Mandarin Chinese Speaking Skills to L2 Student | ||
| Parker, Jeffrey | L2 Acquisition | Group Work and the Communicative Method | ||
| Rosello, Rebecca | L2 Acquisition | Detection of Humorous Structural Ambiguity by Non-Native Speakers | ||
| Wells, William | Pedagogy/L2A | Hanqca Instruction and KFL Education | ||
| April 10 | 3380 WSC | Fifield, Ben | Historical-Comparative Linguistics | The Word Fianl /-S/ in Tagalog Loan Words |
| McCall, Joshua | Historical-Comparative Linguistics | The Etymologies of the Word 'Rus' | ||
| Hargrove, Derek | Historical-Comparative Linguistics | How much of the Japanese Language is Actually Japanese? | ||
| Stradling, Cheryl | Historical-Comparative Linguistics | Is Middle English a Language or Creole? | ||
| Bingham, Julie | Orthography | The Digraphs Ch and Ll in Spanish Orthography |