We’re very proud and happy to share the news that four (!!!) of our undergraduates will be presenting their research at the 23rd Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference. The conference takes place This Friday 4/28 from 8am-5pm in the Campus Center.

There are four talks/posters from our department. If you can, please do come see what our undergraduates have gotten up to over the last year:

Vishal Sunil Arvindam (Room 163, 2:30pm – 3:15pm): Processing singular they with discrete referents: A study contrasting gender-nonconforming with gender-conforming individuals.

Amanda Doucette (Poster C71, 3:30pm – 4:15pm): Inherent biases of recurrent neural networks for phonological assimilation and dissimilation.

Jack Duff (Room 165, 8:30am – 9:15): That punk! An experiment on epithets and perspective dependence.

Emma Jane Merritt (Room 165, 8:30am – 9:15am): How does the presence of shape-based classifiers in Mandarin Chinese influence speakers’ object categorization compared to speakers of English?

The Undergraduate research conference is a venue for undergraduate research from across the state, and it’s really a great opportunity to see what folks have gotten up to both on our campus and in our sister institutions across the Bay State. In addition to talks from linguistics, there will be presentations from undergraduates working across the Cognitive Science Initiative, including Psychology and Communication Disorders. You can check out the whole schedule here:

Hope to see you there!