Linguistics Senior Seminar Symposium

Winter 2012

9:30AM - 10:45AM, JKB 3112

March 13: Psycholinguistics and Natural Language Processing

1. Tory Anderson
   Television Consumption and Story Performance
2. Michael Bean
   Inter-judge Reliability in Plagarism Detection
3. Jennifer Chamberlain
   "What's that name?" A look at Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon
4. Bradley Allen
   A Tale of Two Authors: Using AML for Author Identification

March 15: Language Acquisition and Language Origin

1. Sam Hatch
   On the beginnings of Human Language
2. Barbara Slaugh
   L2 Proficiency of Immersion School Alumni
3. Svetlana Gray
   Collaborative learning vs. individual learning

March 20: Dialectology and Cross-Linguistic Interaction

1. Jeff Netto
   Social Implications of Lexical Variation in Arabic Dialects
2. Kevin Pace
   Two Languages at Once: Mutual Interference Between L2 and L3
3. Po Tim Kwun
   The effects of L2 to L1 on accent
4. Sarah Cox
   Dialectal Differences in the South Indian Village of Jalari Peta

March 22: Language Acquisition and Comprehension

1. Alicia Russell
   The Effects of L2 Knowledge on Understanding Foreign-Accented Speech
2. hyun-ju park
   Literal Meaning vs Figurative Meaning
3. Jeong Sim Seo
   Does long term exposure to English help Koreans distinguish /l/ and /r/ sounds?
4. Young-sun Lee
   Does Korean Postpositions Influence learning of English Prepositions

March 27: Grammar and Social Issues

1. Michelle Morgan
   Language Is It Context or Syntax Driven?
2. Paul Cave
   Gender Usage of Deity Descriptors in Latter-Day Saint Prayers
3. Spencer Roberts
   Preposition Stranding: What can We End Sentences with...