Achievements
Theses and Publications | Graduate Schools | Conference Presentations | Awards | Other
Theses and Publications
Lampton, Taylor. A Case for Internal Movement of the Causative Verb Extension in Bantu Languages. Supervisor: Prof Safir
Nisula, Kirsten. Perception of Auditory Cues for Sentence Disambiguation. (Psychology) Supervisor: Prof Syrett
Kawahara, Shigeto and Kao Sophia. The productivity of a root-initial accenting suffix, [-zu]: Judgement studies. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
Fabian, Peter. Vowel alternations in Cuzco Quechua. Supervisor: Prof Akinlabi and Prof Sánchez.
Garvey, Kelly. Testing the perceptibility of place of articulation of nasal and oral stops and the effect on assimilation. Supervisor: Prof Kawahara
Zymet, Jesse. Parameters for Coordinative Compounding. Supervisor: Prof Baker
Opper, Michael. Morphophonology of Taiwan Hakka. Supervisors: Prof de Lacy (linguistics) and Prof Simmons (Chinese).
Graduate Schools
2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007
Nicholas Angelides: Oxford University (Linguistics)
Maxwell Kramer: Syracuse University (Linguistics)
Taylor Lampton: University of Delaware (Linguistics)
Rachel Leslie: Rutgers Newark - Professional Accounting program (MBA)
Meghan McCartney - Rutgers Graduate School of Education (Education and ESL Certification)
Mike Ortega: Rutgers School of Law - Newark, J.D.
Jesse Zymet: University of California, Los Angeles (Linguistics)
Peter Fabian: University of California, Santa Cruz (Linguistics)
Kristen Matos: Kean University (Speech-Language Pathology)
Lindsey Charbonneau: University of Indiana at Bloomington
Kelly Garvey: Researcher, Moss Rehab Research Institute
2010
Brian Chen: University of Memphis, Doctor of Audiology Program
Lara Greenberg: Boston University, PhD (Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences)
Shanna Lichtman: Loyola College, MD (Speech-Language Pathology)
Sophia Kao: State University of New York, Stony Brook, PhD (Linguistics)
Michael Opper: University of Michigan (Linguistics)
Allan Schwade: University of California, Santa Cruz, PhD
2009
Kaeli Ward: University of California, LA (Linguistics)
2008
Brian Smith: University of Massachusetts Amherst (Linguistics)
2007
James Pannacciulli: University of California, Los Angeles
Conference Presentations
Angelides, Nicholas, Todor Koev, Maxwell Kramer (2012). An experimental investigation of the semantic contribution of appositives. Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning (MACSIM), University of Maryland, College Park. (Supervisor: Prof Syrett)
Crosby, Krista, Asya Achimova, Viviane Deprez, Julien Musolino (2012). How did every child anser each question? Poster, Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium. (Syntax Lab; Supervisor: Prof Deprez)
Fremed, Ariel, Dryton McGrath, and Paul de Lacy (2012). A prescreening questionnaire for field and laboratory experimentation in phonological theory. Poster, Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium. (Phonology Lab; Supervisor: Prof de Lacy)
Huang, Shirley, Mike Ortega, Ankita Patel, Asya Achimova, Viviane Deprez (2012). The Acquisition of Determiners in L2 French. Poster, Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium. (Supervisor: Prof Deprez)
Chen, Tan, Shirley Huang, Mihir Sarwade, Viviane Deprez. (2011) Acquisition of L2 French Determiners. Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium. (Supervisor: Prof Deprez)
Fabian, Peter (2011). Vowel alternations in Cuzco Quechua. (Supervisor: Profs Akinlabi and Sánchez)
· GLEEFUL (Great Lakes Exposition for Experimental and Formal Undergraduate Linguistics), Michigan State University
·Cornell Undergraduate Research Symposium
·The Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Garvey, Kelly and Shigeto Kawahara (2011) Nasal place assimilation and the perception of place contrasts. (Supervisor: Prof Kawahara)
· West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 29 (WCCFL).
· Penn Linguistics Colloquium 35
Kalkstein, Ariana, Hannah Baker, Julien Musolino, and Kristen Syrett. (2011). An experimental investigation of the semantics and pragmatics of together in child and adult language. Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium. (Supervisors: Profs Musolino and Syrett)
Kawahara, Shigeto, Melanie Pangilinan, and Kelly Garvey (2011). Spectral continuity and the perception of duration: Implications for phonological properties of geminates. International workshop on geminate consonants (GemCon 2011). Kobe University. January 8th. (Supervisor: Prof Kawahara)
Kon, Maxwell and Asya Achimova. (2011) Who can participate in an experiment? A study on linguistic methodology. Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium. (Supervisor: Prof Déprez)
Krum, Audrey, Lara Martin, Kelly Garvey, Shigeto Kawahara,Sarah Korostoff, Michelle Marron, and Melanie Pangilinan (2011) Perceiving length contrasts: the role of amplitude drop. Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium. (Supervisor: Prof Kawahara)
Simon, Georgia and Paul de Lacy (2011) A model of B’s glossolalia. (Supervisor: Prof de Lacy)
·GLEEFUL (Great Lakes Exposition for Experimental and Formal Undergraduate Linguistics), Michigan State University
·The Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Simon, Georgia, Kirsten Nisula, Stephen Klimashousky, and Kristen Syrett. (2011) Disentangling the link between scope and prosody. Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium. (Supervisor: Prof Syrett)
Syrett, Kristen, Lara Greenberg, Shigeto Kawahara and Melanie Kelliher (2011) The acoustic features and perception of children’s clear speech. The 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. January 8th, 2011. (Supervisors: Profs Kawahara and Syrett)
Syrett, Kristen, Hannah Baker, Ariana Kalkstein, Julien Musolino (2011). Let's disambiguate sentences together: What children know about the semantics of together, and where pragmatics steps in. 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. (Supervisors: Profs Syrett and Musolino)
Venezia, Francesca, Asya Achimova, Viviane Deprez, and Julien Musolino. (2011). How to answer Which questions: An experimental approach. Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium. (Supervisor: Profs Deprez and Musolino)
Zymet, Jesse (2011). Parameters for Coordinative Compounding. (Supervisor: Prof Baker)
·GLEEFUL (Great Lakes Exposition for Experimental and Formal Undergraduate Linguistics), Michigan State University
·The Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Blanc, Natalie, Kristen Lew, and Yevgen Mustafayev (2010). The intonation of French wh-questions. Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium. (Supervisors: Profs Deprez, Kawahara, and Syrett)
Garvey, Kelly (2010). Testing perceptual similarity in the coda context: Similarity judgment experiments. Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium. (Supervisor: Prof Kawahara)
Greenberg, Lara (2010). Preschoolers vary the production of their vowels with discourse context. Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium (Supervisors: Prof Kawahara and Prof Syrett)
Kao, Sophia. (2010). [-zu], a root-initial accenting suffix in Japanese: Experimental studies. (Supervisors: Shigeto Kawahara)
· Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium
· Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics V
Opper, Michael (2010). Allomorphy in Taiwan Hakka. The Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium. (Supervisor: Prof de Lacy)
Schwade, Allan (2010). Probing plosives and twisting tongues: An investigation of the p-map hypothesis. (Supervisor: Prof Kawahara)
·The Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium.
· Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Conference
· Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Conference
· Minority Academic Careers Program, Spring Symposium
2009
Beattie, Ayanna, & Schwade, Allan. (2009). Korean tongue twisters and linguistic similarity. (Supervisor: Prof Kawahara)
·Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Conference
· Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Conference
Sultan, June and Lindsey Charbonneau (2009). From single words to sentences in Early Child Language. The Aresty Research Center Undergraduate Research Symposium. (Supervisor: Prof Stromswold)
Awards
2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008
Taylor Lampton. Department of Linguistics for Academic Excellence.
Taylor Lampton. The Robert Jeffers Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Linguistics Department.
Kelly Garvey. Department of Linguistics Award for Academic Excellence
Jesse Zymet. The Robert Jeffers Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Linguistics Department
Peter Fabian. Henry Rutgers Scholar Award.
Kelly Garvey. Henry Rutgers Scholar Award.
2010
Sopia Kao. Department of Linguistics Award for Academic Excellence
Michael Opper. Henry Rutgers Scholar Award.
Michael Opper. The Robert Jeffers Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Linguistics Department.
2009
Kaeli Ward. Department of Linguistics Award for Academic Excellence
Mathias Bullerman. The Robert Jeffers Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Linguistics Department
2008
Monica Rodriguez. Department of Linguistics Award for Academic Excellence
Brian Smith. The Robert Jeffers Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Linguistics Department
Other
2009. Linguistics Majors Kortney Babington, Mathias Bullerman, Adrienne DeWitt, Kate Lupinska, and Michael Opper were selected by the Aresty Research Center to participate in a video interview series called "The Undergraduate Research Spotlight". The students were interviewed about their research on the phonetics and phonology of glossolalia, led by Prof Paul de Lacy.
