Linguistics Tri-College 2026

Iris Bresnahan

Iris Bresnahan

Label: Haverford College

A sketch grammar of an emoji based text corpus

Niall Wayne Ferris

Niall Wayne Ferris

Label: Swarthmore College

Blurring Boundaries of Writing: The Dongba Script and the Naxi Creation Myth

2026 Tri-College Thesis Award Winner

Taylor Gray

Taylor Gray

Label: Swarthmore College

Spoken Melodies: A Black Languaging ELA Curriculum

Iris Kim

Iris Kim

Label: Bryn Mawr College

Sign Language Buoys in Lexical Items

Katelyn Kim

Katelyn Kim

Label: Bryn Mawr College

Pain-Free: A Study on Indexical Cues in Tylenol's Advertising Language

Luc Krishnan

Luc Krishnan

Label: Haverford College

Style and Spokenness in Communication on Tumblr

Stirling Lewis

Stirling Lewis

Label: Bryn Mawr College

Korean Diaspora Tonogenesis: VOT Merger and Contrastive f0 in Philadelphia

Coco Liu

Coco Liu

Label: Haverford College

Categorial status and structures of Mandarin gei constructions

2026 Tri-College Thesis Award Winner

Henry Nguyen

Henry Nguyen

Label: Swarthmore College

Aspect Phrase in Scottish Gaelic

Frank Paz

Frank Paz

Label: Swarthmore College

On the Perspectives of Multilingual Galician Speakers: From First-Language Speakers to “New Speakers”

Meghan Tarpey

Meghan Tarpey

Label: Bryn Mawr College

Raising New Native Speakers: Parental Roles and Ideologies in Irish Language Revitalization

Finn Verdonk

Finn Verdonk

Label: Swarthmore College

"He’s Here, He’s Not Queer”: The Indexical Potential of Pronoun Use on American Drag Reality Television

2026 Tri-College Thesis Award Winner

Vic Wen

Vic Wen

Label: Swarthmore College

Processing of, and Adaptation to, Nonbinary Pronouns