Explore some of the department's recent Senior Comprehensives papers:
2023
Annie Lynch ’23 (French & Linguistics, 2-paper option)
Optimizing the Effectiveness of Recasts in the Second Language Acquisition Classroom (Linguistics)
To Diphthongize or Not to Diphthongize: The Prestige of Diphthongization in Canadian French Vowels (French)
Elise Raphael ’23 (Linguistics & Spanish, 1-paper option)
El futuro del futuro: Una revisión sociolingüística del tiempo futuro en español
2022
Jackson Eddy ’22 (Spanish & Linguistics, 1-paper option)
The Impact and Effect of Language Contact with Spanish on Catalan: Loss of /e/ and /ε/ Vowel Distinction for Individual Speakers and Entire Language Communities
Jacqueline Cao ’22 (Spanish & French, 1-paper option)
Stress Perception in Spanish and French: Developments and ‘Deafness’
Samantha Stuart ’22 (Linguistics & Spanish, 1-paper option)
Explorando los pronombres de segunda persona singular en Colombia a través de la telenovela La Reina del Flow
Ethan Ferrall ’22 (Linguistics & Spanish, 1-paper option)
Intervocalic /p, t, k/ Voicing in Chilean Spanish
Noah Yee Yick ’22 (Linguistics & Spanish, 2-paper option with Span. 490)
Conflict between Standard and Heritage Varieties: An Analysis of Instructor Ideologies and Practices in Spanish as a Heritage Language Courses
Siena Lucido ’22 (French & Linguistics, 1-paper option)
An Investigation into Verlan: The Backwards Slang of France
2021
Helen Dodd ’21 (French & Linguistics, 1-paper option)
The History of and Attitudes Towards the Feminization of Professional Terms in French
Audrey Lily ’21 (Spanish & Russian, 1-paper option)
Actitudes lingüísticas en el español de Nuevo México: cómo la edad influye en las tensiones lingüísticas entre el norte y el sur
Zeke Sebastian ’21 (Spanish & Linguistics, 1-paper option)
Social Stratification, Language Change, and Exemplar Theory