Explore some of the department's recent Senior Comprehensives papers:
2025
Kiana Gonzalez ™25 (Spanish & Linguistics)
The Gap Between Ideology and Practice in Heritage Language Education
Ryann Hally ™25 (Spanish & Linguistics)
Tres casos en los que las mujeres favorecen reducir /s/: Investigando el género a través de la lenición de /s/ en español
Samantha Saunders ™25 (Spanish & Linguistics)
Pluralidad, anterioridad y posesión: Análisis morfológico del Palenquero
From Scales to Speech: Exploring the Reciprocal Effects of Tone in Music and Language
Cadence Wanner ™25 (Spanish & Linguistics)
Equitable Assessment and Intervention for Bilingual Children with Speech Sound Disorders
2024
Jazzbird Molina ™24 (Spanish & Linguistics)
Barriers and Facilitators of Third Language Acquisition: An Overview and Proposed Los Angeles Study
Abby Panzica ™24 (Spanish & Linguistics)
The Spanish Influence on Papiamentu: From Origins to Contemporary Contact
Maisy Pekala ™24 (Spanish & Linguistics)
Creaky Voice Chronicles: Production, Perception, and Sociocultural Contexts
Aidan Trinity ™24 (Spanish & Linguistics)
Counting Ship: Vowel Inherent Spectral Changes in Multi-Category Distinction Tasks
2023
Annie Lynch ™23 (French & Linguistics)
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)
El futuro del futuro: Una revisión sociolingüÃstica del tiempo futuro en español
2022
Jackson Eddy ™22 (Spanish & Linguistics)
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)
Stress Perception in Spanish and French: Developments and ˜Deafness™
Samantha Stuart ™22 (Linguistics & Spanish)
Explorando los pronombres de segunda persona singular en Colombia a través de la telenovela La Reina del Flow
Ethan Ferrall ™22 (Linguistics & Spanish)
Intervocalic /p, t, k/ Voicing in Chilean Spanish
Noah Yee Yick ™22 (Linguistics & Spanish)
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)
An Investigation into Verlan: The Backwards Slang of France
2021
Helen Dodd ™21 (French & Linguistics)
The History of and Attitudes Towards the Feminization of Professional Terms in French
Audrey Lily ™21 (Spanish & Russian)
Actitudes lingüÃsticas en el español de Nuevo México: cómo la edad influye en las tensiones lingüÃsticas entre el norte y el sur
Zeke Sebastian ™21 (Spanish & Linguistics)
Social Stratification, Language Change, and Exemplar Theory