Linguistics presentations at the Undergrad Symposium 2025!
The annual Undergraduate Symposium is a large and lively event which showcases creative student research from disciplines across campus. This year’s symposium took place on April 25, and featured an astounding number of projects on various aspects of language science and linguistics! Here are the ones we spotted in perusing the program… please let us know if we have missed anybody!
- Novel Word Learning in Bidialectal English-Speaking Children
Evelyn Anton | Mentor: Margarita Kaushanskaya - Phonological and Phonetic Complexity in Stop Consonants: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis
Oona Audley, Caroline Downey | Mentors: Joe Salmons, Lucas Annear
- Learning in Noise: The Role of Accent and Accent Exposure in Cross-Situational Word Learning
Madeline Hauenstein | Mentors: Margarita Kaushanskaya, Emily Bagan - What Correlations Exist Between the Experiences of Heritage Speakers of Sinitic Language and Their Sense of Belonging and Cultural Identity?
Renee Chau | Mentor: Joe Salmons - Analyzing Perspective-Taking in Child-Directed Narratives Told in American Sign Language (ASL) and Spoken English
Emanuel De Gabriel | Mentor: Laura Horton - African American English Dialect Perception in Speech-Language Pathology
Margo Fassbender | Mentors: Joe Salmons, Margarita Kaushanskaya, Chenelle Walker
- The Correlation Between English Prosody and American Sign Language Techniques in Children Storytelling
Ramon Guarnero | Mentor: Laura Horton - Preschoolers’ Use of Expertise in Word Learning
Abigail Simon | Mentors: Jenny Saffran, Jess Mankewitz - The Impacts of Peer Behavior and Classroom Environment on Preschoolers’ Word Learning Outcomes
Courtney Nicole Snoberger | Mentors: Jenny Saffran, Ellie Breitfeld - Assessing the Role of Dual Language Immersion in Spanish Retention and Literacy among Native English Speakers
Maggie Thomas | Mentors: Margarita Kaushanskaya, Chenelle Walker - The Effect of Bilingual Parental Input on Novel Word Learning
Hannah Wahl | Mentors: Margarita Kaushanskaya, Jenny Saffran
It is so exciting to see undergraduate students work closely with faculty mentors on a fascinating array of research projects like these! Our students and Lang Sci faculty have been hard at work this year…
