Linguistics Colloquia

• Brian M. Green (Dr. Shaw Gynan): Uzbek Morphology
• Morgan Simon (Dr. Shaw Gynan): The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Revisited
• Thomas Yount (Dr. Shaw Gynan): Culture as a System of Mediation and Communication
• Kaylee Lewis & Alyssa Thornley (Drs. Fallou Ngom & Shaw Gynan): Introduction to Forensic Linguistics and its Practical Applications
• Alexander Olsen (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Second Language Acquisition: German Influence on English

• Erica Myhre (Prof. Jordan Brewer): A Phonological Analysis of Lambda
• Rachel Kehrli (Dr. Kristin Denham): The "Wanna" Contraction
• Cassandra Hogl (Dr. Kristin Denham): Linguistics in the Schools
• Kevin Wiener (Dr. Shaw Gynan): Japanese Morphology of Verbs
• Samantha Wray (Dr. Kristin Denham): Cross-Dialectal Analysis of Arabic Dualism
• Lena Bradford (Prof. Dwan Shipley): Language Acquisition in Feral Children

• Krysty Welch (Dr. Rudi Weiss): Length of the German Trill [R] Compared to the English [ɹ]
• David Johnson (Dr. Edward Vajda): R U 1337? Online Gaming and the Evolution of Text
• Bryan Tinsley (Dr. Shaw N. Gynan): An Analysis of Synthetic Vowel Prosody

• Erin Hunter, Rachel Bell, Andrea Schwartz, & Bryn Frazier (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Substratum interface and code switching of hispanohablantes en los EEUU
• Derek Tulluck, Rui Tada, & Siu Linh Ung (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Pronunciation Difficulties of Korean and Japanese English Language Learners

• Akane Takayanagi & Joshua Daniels (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Language Contact: Korean & English
• Andrew Blick (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Portuguese Clitics
• Derik Bron (Prof. Dwan Shipley): English at the Wok
• Douglas Zwick (Dr. Rudi Weiss): Acoustic Differences between Voiced and Voiceless Consonants in Whispered English
• Heather Swihart (Dr. Anne Lobeck): Teaching Grammar in Schools
• Kyla Smith (Dr. Rudi Weiss): Findings on Individuals' Harmonic Patters for the [I] vowel
• Mark Winterstein (Dr. Kendra Douglas): The Effects of English Language Acquisition on a Native German Speaker

• Andrew M. Blick & Anna Talvi (Dr. John Underwood & Prof. Amy Carbajal): Second Language Acquisition: Spanish in the Classroom
• Nick Metully (Dr. Rudi Weiss): Shanghainese Acoustic Phonetics
• Nouth Lameny (Dr. Shaw Gynan): Morphology of the Lao Language
• Trevor Osborn (Dr. Shaw Gynan): Spanish Vowel Sequences

• Eriko Tsuji (Dr. Shaw Gynan & Dr. Kristin Denham): The Long Vowel and the Super-long Vowel in Japanese
• Jennifer Mankin & Katie Douglas (Dr. Shaw Gynan & Dr. Kristin Denham): Japanese Moraic Obstruents in Native and Non-Native Speakers of Japanese
• Katherine Brewer (Dr. Shaw Gynan & Dr. Kristin Denham): A Study of the Morphological Structures of Blackfoot

• Andrew M. Blick (Dr. David Fiero & Dr. Anne Lobeck): A Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Cervantes' "Don Quijote"
• Andrew Reed (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Constructed Languages: Their creator's intent and their forms
• Eric Foster (Dr. Kendra Douglas): An Analysis of German Substratum Influence on Native German Speakers
• Lauren Delgadillo (Dr. John Underwood): Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
• Megan Brooks (Dr. Shaw Gynan): Language Difficulty in Down Syndrome
• Melanie Amaral (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Origin and Development of Caipira and Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese
• Nathan Hamlitsch (Dr. Anne Lobeck): The VP Internal Subject Hypothesis

• Alexander M. Thompson (Dr. Masanori Deguchi): Verb Similarities and Difference Between English and Japanese
• Andrew M. Blick, Juan Magana & Chelon Towner (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Spanish Speaking Immigrants: How their language is affected, and how they are affected by their language
• Grant Brooks (Dr. Masanori Deguchi): Natural Semantic Metalanguage: Why it works and why it doesn't
• Peiying Wang, Heather Schuck & Evan Erickson (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Language contact in Japanese and English bilinguals
• Steve John Hayslip (Dr. Edward Vajda): Etymology and Semantic change in Spanish: Productivity with some Spanish suffixes: Coinage in Central American dialects

• Elisa Hamilton: A Comparative Study of Classifiers in Chinese and Japanese
• Jonathan Lytle and Lisa Jacobs: Making One's Mouth Pleasant: Translating Brand Names from English to Chinese
• Miho Kamijo: Differences in Chinese and Japanese Classifiers
• Nathan Tracy and Katherine Shin: Comparisons between German and Chinese Passive Voice
• Rie Kawai: Japanese and English Bilingual Analysis

• Dr. Fallou Ngom: Language Analysis in Asylum Cases: A Recent Development in Forensic Linguistics

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• Adrienne Solenberger: Developing Linguistic Identity: A Focus on African American Women
• Devon Tremain: An Examination of German Inflectional Morphology
• Hanako Lombardi: The Language Use of Mother Goose
• Korenna Rawls, Sara Newboles, Tim Hinchliffe & Erin Zabukovec: Language Contact and Native Spanish Speakers in the US
• Melenie Vernon: TBA
• Nathan Tracey and Kathy Shin: TBA
• Tim Wellman: Attitudes of Russian-speaking Immigrants to Israel on Language Maintenance and Language Shift

• Caleb Boteilho: The Nature of Japanese Numeral Quantifiers and their Binding Domains
• Cary Mapes: Numeral Quantifiers in Japanese
• Celia Farr: Language Mavens and the Myth of Language Purity
• Derek Gulas & Rachael Friddell: Long Distance Referencing in Japanese
• Glory Zink: Christian Church Lingo: A Sociolinguistic Investigation
• Jessica Brunsvold: TBA
• Mark Strong: Japanese ESL Speakers- The Phonetic Effect of L1 on L2
• Peter Olsen: TBA
• Sara Castro: The English Only Debate
• Simon Aebersold & Lindsay Greenberg: Features of Advertising Language

• Amanda Smith: The Newfoundland Dialect: Why it is so different from the rest of Canada
• Amy Johansen: Wh-Movement in American Sign Language
• Caitlin McPhee: The Inherent Case of Ergativity in Basque
• Elisabeth Rosapepe: The Construction of Feminity in Grimms' Fairy Tales
• Elizabeth Deag: Pidgins and Creoles and their Importance to Linguists
• Robert Shields: Deconstructing the Construct: Properties of Hebrew and Welsh Construct State

All linguistics majors are required to give a presentation of some of their work before graduation. You may present any quarter. This is a chance for all of us - students and faculty - to get together and to share knowledge, food, and drink. It also gives you a chance to practice giving a real live linguistics talk, just like real live linguists do. So, here are some guidelines:

• In order for students to be eligible to present at any WWU student colloquium, they must complete and submit a colloquium guidelines form, returning it to Dr. Kendra Douglas.
• You are encouraged to present some work that you have already done for one of your linguistics classes, many of which include a paper, project, or presentation as one of the requirements.
• Presentations may be by individuals or small groups.
• Presentations should be approximately 10 minutes (per group or individual) with 5 minutes for questions. (Sometimes we adjust this slightly depending on the total number of presenters.)
• When you think you might have a topic, choose a linguistics faculty member as a mentor. This person will help you with the format of your presentation, handouts, overheads, multimedia setup, etc.
• We can arrange for practice talks, especially if some presenters have not already or recently presented the material in another class. Talk with Dr. Kendra Douglas about this.
• If you plan to present this quarter, notify Dr. Kendra Douglas of your intention to present.