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Mother-Child Interaction: How Visual Access Affects Repair in Conversation

April 15, 2019

How do blind children learn to use language conversationally as it is used by sighted adults around them? By Mara Strother Course: Interactional Linguistics (LING 5800) Advisor: Prof. Barbara Fox LURA 2019 As children develop conversational skills, they orient to adults as sources of confirmation and correction of both verbal...

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Oh and Uh and How Mine Changed

April 17, 2019

What happens to speakers with Indiana accents when they move to Colorado? By Timothy Meier Course: Language Sound Structures (Ling 3100) Advisor: Evan Coles-Harris LURA 2019 You have an accent. Regardless of where you grew up and learned to talk, you speak a dialect. Your accent may not be as...

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Living Between Genders

April 17, 2019

So you talk like a girl, look like a girl, act like a girl. You're a girl, right? By Gin Quesada Lara Course: Language, Gender, and Sexuality (Ling 2400) Advisor: Prof. Kira Hall; TA Velda Khoo LURA 2019 This year in Colorado has been very eye-opening for me. I lived...