Every year, the WiGL Best Abstract Award is given to student authors who submit especially strong, well-written abstracts to WiGL. In the case of co-authored work with faculty, student first authors may receive the award (underlined below). These abstracts are selected via peer reviews and the judgment of WiGL organizers.
Links to abstracts are shared here with permission of the authors.
WiGL 19 Winners
Carlos Martínez-García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid – Object Drop in Spanish Recipes
Evalynn Bogusz & Ford Springer, Dartmouth University – The Velar Myth and Uvular Mystery: An Acoustic Analysis of Georgian Back Obstruents
Youn-Gyu Park, The University of Texas at Austin; Okgi Kim, Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University- Korean coordinated wh-questions: An experimental approach
WiGL 18 Winners
Sadie Collar, Caroline Niziolek, & Yuyu Zeng, University of Wisconsin-Madison – Effects of Speech Motor Learning on L2 Production and Perception Categories
Daniel Stelzer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Solving a 5,000-Year-Old Problem: New Tools for Teaching Cuneiform
WiGL 17 Winners
Megan Massoels & Mary Lou Vercellotti, Ball State University – Lexical Variation for Four American Sign Language Signs, All of Which Mean All
Vanessa Sheu & Elaine Francis, Purdue University – The garden-path of least resistance: semantic plausibility and L1, L2, and heritage speaker aural processing of Mandarin sentences
Shuyang Ye, University of Wisconsin-Madison – From Connector to Discourse Marker: Categorial and Functional Evolution of Mandarin “Ranhou” (‘Then’)