I've listed the titles of some papers I've written for my classes below to give you an idea of my interests.
LIN 383 - Introduction to Romance Linguistics
- Italian as a Contact Language: Pidgins, Creoles, and Other Developments (10 May 2005)
LING 432 - Sociolinguistics I
- Perceived Speech Differences Between Displaced New Orleanians and Speakers in Their New Communities (13 Mar. 2006)
LING 455 - Areal Linguistics
- Cocoliche: History and Structure (5 June 2006)
LING 509 - Syntactic Theory III
- Grammatical Viruses: Useful Tool or Restatement of the Facts? (7 June 2006)
LING 453 - Experimental Phonetics
- The Lexicalization of /ai/ Monophthongization in Two East Texas Communities (11 Dec. 2006)
LING 580 - Comparative Creole Syntax
- Are Creoles Really Simple? Evidence From Earlier Stages of Several Creoles (14 Dec. 2006)
LING 451 - Phonology I
- Italian Syllable Structure (26 Feb. 2007)
LING 580 - The Phonetics of Prosodic Effects on Consonants
- Perceptual Cues to /ai/ Monophthongization (8 June 2007)
LING 433 - Sociolinguistics II
- The Perception of /ai/ Monophthongization in Deer Park, Texas (8 June 2007)
LING 449 - Second Language Learning
- The Special Status of “Non-L1” in L3 Acquisition (13 Dec. 2007)
LING 446 - English Phonology
- An Acoustic Analysis of the Vowel System of a Partially Assimilated Australian Speaker (17 Mar. 2008)
LING 580 - Attitudes and Perception of Variation in Language
- The Effect of Attitudes Toward the South on /ai/ Monophthongization (18 Mar. 2008)
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