April 24, 2023
Please join us for
The Linguistics Undergraduate Honors Colloquium
Monday, May 1, 2023 at 3:10pm
370 Dwinelle Hall
(Zoom link for remote guests: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/92112030060)
Student Presenters
- Cecilia Elena Bachmann
Honors Thesis Title: "Language: A Multidimensional Tool in Higher Education between Achievement and Oppression"
Faculty Advisor: Isaac Bleaman (Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics)
Second Reader: Justin Davidson (Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese) - Andres Sanchez
Honors Thesis Title: "Accented Speech Recognition Disparities in Digital Voice Assistants: Addressing Spanish-Accented English"
Faculty Advisor: Terry Regier (Professor, Department of Linguistics)
Second Reader: Justin Davidson (Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese) - Aishwarya Jayadeep
Honors Thesis Title: "From āṭutan̠ to khalbə: Examining the Heart of Liquid Adaptation in Malayalam’s English and Arabic loans"
Faculty Advisor: Andrew Garrett (Professor, Department of Linguistics)
Second Reader: Darya Kavitskaya (Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures) - Cor Zanda
Honors Thesis Title: "Parallel Morphological Changes in the Polynesian Thematic Suffixes"
Faculty Advisor: Andrew Garrett (Professor, Department of Linguistics)
Readers: Emily Drummond (PhD candidate, Department of Linguistics) and Peter Jenks (Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics) - Bryce Wallace
Honors Thesis Title: "The Vaccine Holocaust: The Rhetorical Use of Metaphor in Anti-vax Discourse"
Faculty Advisor: Eve Sweetser (Professor, Department of Linguistics)
Second Reader: Lori Dorfman (Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health) - Calvin Quick
Honors Thesis Title: "Syntactic Variation in Early Modern Welsh Poetry: An Optimality Theoretic Approach"
Faculty Advisor: Eve Sweetser (Professor, Department of Linguistics)
Second Reader: Myriah Williams (Lecturer, Celtic Studies)