Past Winners
2022-2023
Joy Fu
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
2021-2022
Caroline Berg-Love
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
2020-2021
Charles Michael Senko
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
2019-2020
Swapnanil Deb
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
Marshall McDorman
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
2018-2019
Alaina Arthurs
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
June Choe
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
2017-2018
Alex Krauska
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
Anelia Kudin
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
2016-2017
Jiayi Lu
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
2015-2016
Rebecca Way
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
2014-2015
Casey Colby
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
2013-2014
Corey Nelson
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
Yaseen Mansour
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
2012-2013
Rebekah J. Ward
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
Morgan R. Purrier
Honorable Mention of the Prize
2011-2012
Jeffrey P. Geiger
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
Alex S. Moe
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
2010-2011
Isaac Rottman
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
Cara Gagliano and Tom Hayden
Honorable Mention of the Prize
2009-2010
Jeffrey Schecter
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
2008-2009
Emily Hudepohl
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
Julliard Lin
Outstanding undergraduate work in Linguistics
2007-2008
Kelsey Mok and Page Piccinini
Durations of Words in High and Low Predictability Contexts in Korean Non-native English Speech
2006-2007
Alex Djalali
The Effect of Focus on Bridging Inferences
Jane Solomon (honorable mention)
Dialect Diffusion in Context: Words of Direct Reference
2005-2006
Arim Choi
Context Effects on the Vowel Spaces of Native Korean Speakers
Tyler Perrachione
Intra-talker Variation: Audience Design Factors Affecting Lexical Selections
2004-2005
Carol Sweeney
The Effect of Status Drop in a Community: Modeling the Case of Language Death
Tyler Perrachione (honorable mention)
The Ba-construction in Mandarin Chinese: A Derivational Analysis
2003-2004
Debbie Zutty (honorable mention)
Gender and Sexual Orientation-based Differences in Lexical Size Across Semantic Categories
2002-2003
Taki Flevaris
Nativism in Linguistics: Empirical and Theoretical Issues
Juri Matsubara
Dialect Differentiation between Speech and Song
2001-2002
Karen Chambers
Ellipsis of the Nominal Particle [-ga] in Spoken Japanese: The Phonological Change in Voiced Conditions
Shanelle Frye (honorable mention)
Stuttering in Black Preaching: A Matter of Style?
2000-2001
Elizabeth Coppock
Gapping: In Defense of Deletion
Becca Schwarzlose
Factors in Word Duration and Patterns of Segment Duration in Word-initial and Word-final Consonant Clusters
Sam Tilsen (honorable mention)
Non-functional Non-compositional Interpretation