April 27, 2026
Please join us for
The Undergraduate Linguistics Honors Colloquium
Monday, May 4, 2026
12:10–2pm
370 Dwinelle Hall (or Zoom for remote guests)
Student Presenters:
- Nyssa Combs
Honors Thesis Title: "An Examination of /s/ Realization in the Basque Community of Bakersfield, California"
Faculty Advisor: Nicole Holliday (Acting Associate Professor of Linguistics)
Second Reader: Alexandra Pfiffner (Lecturer, Department of Linguistics) - Sinéad Neinast
Honors Thesis Title: "L3 Acquisition in Spanish-English Bilinguals: How Language of Instruction Affects Perceptual Categories"
Faculty Advisor: Keith Johnson (Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics)
Second Reader: Alexandra Pfiffner (Lecturer, Department of Linguistics) - Ella Mui Shonk
Honors Thesis Title: "Pause Length and Conversational Overlap Variation Between White and Asian American Women"
(Research is funded in part by the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley, and in part by the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley)
Faculty Advisor: Nicole Holliday (Acting Associate Professor of Linguistics)
Second Reader: Darya Kavitskaya (Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Linguistics) - Arly Siu
Honors Thesis Title: "The Interaction of Cantonese Tone and English Intonation in Code-switching"
Faculty Advisor: Alexandra Pfiffner (Lecturer, Department of Linguistics)
Second Reader: Alan Yu (Professor of Linguistics)