Undergraduates present at 1st annual Undergraduate Research Talks!

On Monday May 2, 2022, linguistics major undergraduates Marc Capizzi, Dan DeGenaro, Emily Knick, Thomas Morton, Hannah Parrott, and Fengyue (Lisa) Zhao presented talks on their research at our 1st Annual Undergraduate Research Talks!

Fengyue (Lisa) Zhao, Emily Knick, Hannah Parrott, Dan DeGenaro, Marc Capizzi, and Thomas Morton (left to right) right before the talks started.

Their talks were entitled (in the order presented):

Examining the perceived meanings of African American English Dialect Aspectual Markers Dan DeGenaro

Probabilistic Listener: A Case of Reflexive ziji “self”: Ambiguity Resolution in Mandarin Fengyue (Lisa) Zhao

Vocal Development on Testosterone-based HRT Marc Capizzi

Prevoicing Loss and the [voice] Contrast in the Production of Tokyo Japanese Plosives Emily Knick

Children’s Acquisition of Extraposed Sentences Hannah Parrott

The Cat’s (and) Dog’s Bear: Children’s Planning of Conjoined and Embedded Recursive Possessives Thomas Morton

Thank you to the presenters for their stimulating talks and also to the lively audience, both in person and over Zoom!

A close-up! Fengyue (Lisa) Zhao, Emily Knick, Hannah Parrott, Dan DeGenaro, Marc Capizzi, and Thomas Morton (left to right) right before the talks started.