Linguistics Tri-College Class of 2006

Andrew Abdalian, Swarthmore College

Why's that funny?? An extension to the semantic script theory of humor

Joe Alberti, Swarthmore College

Deaf education in Italy: Formulating methods to increase literacy Among the Deaf population

Kennette Banks, Swarthmore College

Storytelling and poetry in American Sign Language: Characteristics and implications

Charles Bell, Swarthmore College

Starts, stops, grunts and giggles: The anatomy of Instant Iessaging

Jillian Best, Bryn Mawr College

What had happened: The story of AAVE's rocky relationship with American society

Krista Buda, Haverford College

In the name of the German people: The political language of Konrad Adenauer & German-Jewish relations after World War II

Eric Eisenberg, Swarthmore College

Beat generation: Utterance length and how it changes throughout conversation

Jeremy Fahringer, Swarthmore College

Vaultese Falcon: An interlinear text archiving tool

Sarah Hartman, Bryn Mawr College

Sound symbolism in Alaskan Athabascan languages

Sarah Kelsall, Bryn Mawr College

Movement and location notation for American Sign Language

Katharine Merow, Swarthmore College

Sonority contour preferences in Philippine languages

Arpy Saunders, Swarthmore College

Linguistic phylogenetics of the Austronesian family: A performance review of methods adapted from biology

Phoebe Seiders, Bryn Mawr College

Protons, electrons, and morae: Scientific vocabulary development in Japanese

Rachel Shorey, Swarthmore College

Washo plural reduplication: A study of computational models

Heather Simpson, Bryn Mawr College

Finding your train of thought--where it isn't supposed to be: Priming in non-contextual word substitutions

Therese Skatun, Bryn Mawr College

Harry Potter fandom as an online speech community

Luke Smith, Swarthmore College

Signs & sounds: Phonaesthematic association of Japanese mimetics using artificial neural networks

Lisa Spitalewitz, Swarthmore College

How do you pronounce a ";"?: The repackaging of visual-textual pieces for the aural-oral medium

Eri Tagaya, Haverford College

The cognitive effects of bilingualism: Language lateralization and problem solving