Honors Program

If you are passionate about linguistics and an independent thinker, the Honors program offers you the opportunity to pursue your own research questions about language. In order to receive Honors, you must write a thesis under the supervision of a faculty advisor, who chairs your thesis committee. Those who successfully complete the Honors program receive a BA degree that includes the designation cum laude, magna cum laude or summa cum laude. The Honors committee determines the level of Honors that you will receive based on the recommendation made by your Honors thesis committee. In making this recommendation, your thesis committee will take into account your overall GPA, your achievement in the major and the quality of your thesis.  

The Linguistics faculty strong encourages academically prepared students to pursue Honors. Learn about the Honors process by contacting the and LING Honors Council representative, Prof. J Calder. Check out Writing an Honors Thesis for detailed information about writing an undergraduate Honors thesis in Linguistics.

Linguistics minor Jessica Lutz was selected as Outstanding Undergraduate Spring 2013, based in part on her Linguistics Honors thesis. On the basis of her Honors thesis, Tory Stockton, a 2004 BA graduate in Linguistics and Anthropology, received the Distinguished Colorado Graduate Award.

Recent Linguistics Honors Theses

 

  • Gomez, Carlos Jr. (2023). "Cross-Dialectal Usage of Augmentative and Diminutive Suffixes in Spanish Online: An Exercise in Corpus Linguistics.鈥
  • Renfrow, Abigail (2023). 鈥淕lobal Englishes and the Native Speaker Standard in EAL Classrooms.鈥
  • Reynolds, Emily (2023). "'If you wanna be polite to the customer, speak English to the customer in America:' Analysis of Customer Service and Metapragmatics of Politeness in Language Discrimination.鈥
  • Walt, Olivia (2023). 鈥淪peaking and Healing through Music: A Proposal to Bridge the Gap Between American English Use and Psychological Expression.鈥
  • Zhang, Yizhe (2023). "Production of English Liquid Consonants in Coda Position by Native Mandarin Chinese Speakers."
  • Judge, Evi (2022). "Doubled-that Constructions in Natural Speech."
  • Nammari, Maisa (2022). "Touo: An Exploration of Grammar Through Narration."
  • Britt, Kieran (2020). "An Account of the Causes of Quantifier Scope Ambiguity."
  • Olmsted, Carolyn (2020). "How to Do Things With Memes."
  • Pielke, Megan (2019). "Language Learning Outside the Classroom: Evaluating the Efficacy of Instructional Repair Techniques in One-on-one Tutoring Sessions between University Students and Immigrant Employees."
  • Johnston, Brittney. (2018). "'I am also a Colorado Native': A Perspective of Identity-Work in Conversation."
  • Williamson-Lee, Jayne. (2018). "Metaphor to Memory: Effects of Spatiotemporal Metaphors on the Emotional Valence of Autobiographical Memories."
  • Buck, Kendra (2017). "Verb bias and Plausibility in English Sentence Processing."
  • Downey, Amiawatoa (2016). "Grammar of Zir."
  • Damalas, Allix (2016). 鈥淓xploring the Ideological Shift of Japanese Feminine Language: Sentence-Final Particle wa in Sailor Moon.鈥
  • Buchler, Chelsea (2014). "The 鈥楩riendzone': Renegotiating Gender Performance and Boundaries in Relationship Discourse.鈥
  • Lutz, Jessica (2013). 鈥淧erception and Production of English Cues to Plosive Voicing by Native Mandarin Speakers.鈥
  • Barber, Jared. (2010). "The Past Tense in Indirect Speech."
  • Goss, Matthew (2010). "Speaking-For-Thinking: A Reexamination of Linguistic Relativity."
  • O'Brien, Hannah (2010). "Recontextulaization of Language Preservation Methods: The Case of Northern Arapaho Immersion Schools.
  • Preciado, Jenette. (2010). "Arapaho Language Education: Language Ideologies in the Classroom."
  • Badwan, Hasan. (2008). "Kamanap: A Language Sketch."
  • Davis, Taryn (2007). "The Frame Makes the Picture: Politically Engineered Phrases and the Public Response."
  • Hott, Katya (2007). "Spirits and the Unknown in Susu Language."
  • Cantrell, Sarah (2006). "A Monolingual Education: Barriers to Foreign Language Education at the Primary Level in Colorado."
  • Groene-Sackett, Simone (2006). "She's in the Money: Financial Femininity Discourses in Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping."
  • Balder, Sara (2004). "Cultural Promotion of Homophobia Manifested in Chilean Spanish."
  • Gehret, Heidi (2004). "Where Language Unites, Writing Divides: Conflicting Ideologies in the Quest for Orthography in Postcolonial Somalia."
  • Padilla, Ram贸n (2004). "The Role of Culture in Bible Translation: An Analysis of Hebrews 2."
  • Stockton, Tory (2004). "Disrobing Identity: Education Reform and Language Politics in the Coroico Municipality of the Nor Yungas of Bolivia."
  • Brontsema, Robin (2003). "A Queer Revolution: Reconceptualizing the Debate over Linguistic Reclamation."
  • Hoffman, Sara (2003). "Language Attitudes among High School Seniors in Santa Fe."