Master's Thesis
Term Papers
To give you an idea of my interests, I've also listed the titles of some of my term papers below.
- Italian as a Contact Language: Pidgins, Creoles, and Other Developments (LIN 383, 10 May 2005)
- Cocoliche: History and Structure (LING 455, 5 June 2006)
- The Lexicalization of /ai/ Monophthongization in Two East Texas Communities (LING 453, 11 Dec. 2006)
- Are Creoles Really Simple? Evidence From Earlier Stages of Several Creoles (LING 580, 14 Dec. 2006)
- Italian Syllable Structure (LING 451, 26 Feb. 2007)
- Perceptual Cues to /ai/ Monophthongization (LING 580, 8 June 2007)
- The Perception of /ai/ Monophthongization in Deer Park, Texas (LING 433, 8 June 2007)
- The Special Status of “Non-L1” in L3 Acquisition (LING 449, 13 Dec. 2007)
- An Acoustic Analysis of the Vowel System of a Partially Assimilated Australian Speaker (LING 446, 17 Mar. 2008)
- The Effect of Attitudes Toward the South on /ai/ Monophthongization (LING 580, 18 Mar. 2008)
- Attitudes in Social Network Research (LING 534, 12 Dec. 2008)
- An Investigation of Themes in Sociolinguistic Interviews through Lexical Frequency Data (ENGL 560, 12 Dec. 2008)
- Dialect Perception and Salience: What do Non-Linguists Notice? (LING 580, 16 Mar. 2009)
- An Examination of the Southern Vowel Shift in a Deer Park, Texas Speaker (LING 535, 28 May 2009)
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