This year, we had four outstanding Honors Theses written in the Department.

Rosalie Edmunds: They’ll be doing away with those buffalo”: Language, Culture, and History in a Salish-Pend d’Oreille Narrative.  Supervisors:  Sally Thomason (Linguistics) and Barbara Meek (Anthropology)

Charles Fletcher III:  La Lengua Rosa: A Sociolinguistic Study of Gay Spanish in Madrid.  Supervisors:  Webb Keane (Anthropology), Robin Queen (Linguistics), Deborah Keller-Cohen (Linguistics)

Alan Mishler: Voice Onset Time in Japanese Voiceless Stops: Domain-initial Strengthening and Perceptual Salience.  Supervisors:  Pam Beddor (Linguistics), Andries Coetzee (Linguistics)

Ania Musial: Overcoming The Subset Problem: The Subset Problem and You Or, Maximum Entropy Modeling of L2 Phonotactic Acquisition. Supervisors:  Andries Coetzee (Linguistics), Steve Abney (Linguistics).

Congratulations to these fine scholars on their excellent work.

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