Since 2008, undergraduate theses submitted by B.A. and B.S. recipients at the university are published online in the OSU KnowledgeBank Collection of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Theses and Honors Research Theses. This page is currently under construction. When it is finished, it will list each of the theses submitted by recipients of the B.A. in Linguistics to the KnowledgeBank Collection, along with a link to the DOI and information about what the B.A. recipient did with the degree.
2019
Michael Sullivan
A Nondeterministically Enumerated Categorial Grammar analysis of Croatian and English passive constructions.
Advisors: Bob Levine and Andrea Sims
Michelle McKenzie
Effects of relative frequency on morphological processing in Russian and English.
Advisor: Andrea Sims
2018
Bethany Toma
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Right Dislocation: Odd thing, that
Advisors: Judith Tonhauser and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
Megan Dailey
Dialect Classification and Speech Intelligibility in Noise
Advisor: Cynthia Clopper
2017
Alyssa Nelson
Comparison of vowel acoustics in children from the Northern, Midland, and Southern regions of the United States
Advisor: Cynthia Clopper
Erin Walpole
Free-classification of American dialects in three conditions: natural, monotonized, and low-pass filtered speech
Advisor: Cynthia Clopper
2016
Daven Hobbs
Dravidian’s influence on Indo-Aryan: The case of the dative-subject construction
Advisors: Brian Joseph and Don Winford
2015
Shannon Melvin
Gender variation in creaky voice and fundamental frequency
Advisor: Cynthia Clopper
Christine Prechtel
Effects of gender and regional dialect on uptalk in the American Midwest
Advisor: Cynthia Clopper
Erin Luthern
Variation in glottalization at prosodic boundaries in clear and plain lab speech
Advisor: Cynthia Clopper
Wei Zhou
The homophone dffect in Mandarin word recognition
Advisors: Kiwako Ito and Shari Speer
2014
Vicki Lynn Krebs
An articulatory and acoustic description of word initial and word medial fricatives and approximants in Mangetti Dune !Xung
Advisor: Amanda Miller
Adam Royer
Effects of Regional Dialect on Word-Final Consonant Voicing
Advisor: Cynthia Clopper
2013
Mary Kathryn Bauer
Twang and slang: Regional Origin and Perceptual Dialectology in Ohio
Advisor: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
Amber Torelli
Perceptual Dialectology in Ohio
Advisor: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
2012
Kristen Scudieri
On the perception of /s/ and /ʃ/: considering the effects of phonotactics
Advisors: Elizabeth Hume and Cynthia Clopper
2010
Chanelle Mays
Gender differences in Japanese and English "s" versus "sh"
Advisor: Mary Beckman
2009
John Pate
Extending Phone Prediction Models of Word Segmentation to a More Realistic Representation of Prosody
Committee: Chris Brew (advisor), Mary Beckman, and Eric Fosler-Lussier
John Pate also received an MA from our Linguistics program before going on to earn a PhD at the University of Edinburgh
2008
Terrin Tamati
Effects of dialect and talker variability on lexical recognition memory
Advisor: Cynthia Clopper
After earning her BA, Terrin Tamati entered the doctoral program at Indiana University
Cory Shain
Differential Object Marking in Paraguayan Guaraní
Advisor: Peter Culicover and Judith Tonhauser
After earning his MA in linguistics, Cory Shain studied French, Spanish, and cognitive modeling before returning to OSU in 2016 to enter the doctoral program in Linguistics.
Ross Metusalem
The Role of Pitch Accent in Discourse Construction
Advisor: Kiwako Ito
Ross Metusalem also received an MA from our Linguistics program before becoming a doctoral student at the University of California, San Diego
2007
Erika Colijn
Word Order in Paraguayan Guaraní
Advisor: Judith Tonhauser
Jon Stevens
The Old English Demonstrative: A Synchronic and Diachronic Investigation
Advisors: Brian Joseph and Craige Roberts
Jon Stevens also received an MA from our Linguistics program before going on to earn his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania
2006
Nadia El-Yousseph
Sex and Size: The Influence of Grammatical Gender on Object Perception in English and German
Advisors: Kathryn Corl and Shari Speer
Katherine Woznicki
An Acoustic Analysis of Word Prosody in Ljubljana Slovene
Advisor: Mary Beckman