Past Research Projects

Sample Directed Research Projects completed with Professor Randall:

• Kim, Brian. (2010) “Plain English Jury Instructions.”
• Spector, Sarina. (2010) Provost Undergraduate Research Project Proposal “Linguistic Research into the Multilingual Web.”
• Cross, Lauren. (2009) “The Grammar Ghost.”
• Hall, Amanda. (2009) “Does Knowing Grammar Mean Teaching Grammar?”
• Lauren Cross, Lauren. (2008) “The Grammar Gap: What about those grammar books?”
• Hall, Amanda. (2008) “The Grammar Gap: Do English teachers know passives?”
• Gartsman, Anna and Laura Hughes. (2007) “Introduction to Linguistics Study Guide.” Senior Honors Thesis.
• Natale, Sarah. (2007) “The Speechome Study.”
• Hawes, Timothy. (2005) “The Evolution of Linguistic Theory: From Government & Binding to the Minimalist Program.” Senior Honors Thesis.
• Hawes, Timothy. (2005) “Resultatives across Linguistic Theories.”

Sample Directed Research Projects completed with Dr. Littlefield:

• Kubrin, Mara. (2010) “Gapped Sequences and the Acquisition of Prepositions, Adverbs and Particles by L2 English Learners.”
• Piorek, Samantha. (2010) “Language and Gender in Sex Role Stereotypes in Personal Ads on Craigslist.”
• Ablott, Kristine. (2009) “Evidence for Fine-Grained Syntactic Categories in the Nominal Domain.” Paper presented at the 7th Annual Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium at Harvard University, April 2009.
• DeSantis, Chelsea. (2008) “A Fine-Grained Approach to Second Language Acquisition and the Prepositional Domain.” Accepted for the 6th Annual Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium at Harvard University, April 2008.
• Cross, Lauren and Jaclyn Karvelas. (2008) “Developmental Patterns as Evidence for a Fine-Grained Analysis of the Verbal Domain.”
• Bauermeister, Mischa. (2007) “Language and Gender in the Courtroom.” Senior Honors Thesis; awarded a Provost Undergraduate Research Award to support this research.
• Naylor, Adrienne. (2007) “Language, Heteronormativity, and Women’s Oppression”
• Fowler, Nathan. (2007) “Classifiers and American Sign Language: An Overview with a Proposal for Future Avenues of Research”
• Garza, Leah. (2006) “The verbal domain: Evidence for fine-grained categories.” Presented at the 2006 NU Women in Science Poster Exposition.
• Gleason, Lindsey. (2006) “Verbs and children: A study of language acquisition in children.” Presented at the 2006 NU Women in Science Poster Exposition.
• Hayes, Emily. (2006) “Classifiers in American Sign Language.” Presented at the 2006 NU Women in Science Poster Exposition.
• Krulikowski, Kim. (2006) “Semi-lexical prepositions in German.” Presented at the 2006 NU Women in Science Poster Exposition.
• Saadi, Zina. (2005) “Evidence of developmental patterns in the acquisition of a language: A study of prepositions and particles in Arabic.”
• Kaneko, Masako. (2004) “Acquisition of Japanese postpositions.”
• Penuel, Tabitha. (2004) “Another look at ‘down’ and what it can tell us about child language development.”

Directed Studies completed with Dr. Littlefield

• Structure of the Spanish language
• History of the French Language
• Methods in Language Acquisition Research