Explore some of the department's recent Senior Comprehensives titles.
2026
Jacqueline Pichardo ’26 (Spanish & Linguistics)
Code-Switching Without Alternating Between Two Languages? The Balance Between Cultural Identity and Linguistic Expression
Supervising professor: Mariška Bolyanatz Brown
Tim (Chenghan) Zhou ’26 (Chinese & Linguistics)
Acquisition of Language: A Critical Review of Factors in Language Acquisition
Supervising professor: Mariška Bolyanatz Brown
2025
Kiana Gonzalez ’25 (Spanish & Linguistics)
The Gap Between Ideology and Practice in Heritage Language Education
Supervising professor: Mariška Bolyanatz Brown
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
Supervising professor: Mike Shelton
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
Supervising professor: Mike Shelton
Cadence Wanner ’25 (Spanish & Linguistics)
Equitable Assessment and Intervention for Bilingual Children with Speech Sound Disorders
Supervising professor: Mariška Bolyanatz Brown
2024
Jazzbird Molina ’24 (Spanish & Linguistics)
Barriers and Facilitators of Third Language Acquisition: An Overview and Proposed Los Angeles Study
Supervising professor: Mariška Bolyanatz Brown
Abby Panzica ’24 (Spanish & Linguistics)
The Spanish Influence on Papiamentu: From Origins to Contemporary Contact
Supervising professor: Mike Shelton
Maisy Pekala ’24 (Spanish & Linguistics)
Creaky Voice Chronicles: Production, Perception, and Sociocultural Contexts
Supervising professor: Mariška Bolyanatz Brown
Aidan Trinity ’24 (Spanish & Linguistics)
Counting Ship: Vowel Inherent Spectral Changes in Multi-Category Distinction Tasks
Supervising professor: Mike Shelton
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)
Supervising professor: Mike Shelton
Elise Raphael ’23 (Linguistics & Spanish)
El futuro del futuro: Una revisión sociolingüÃstica del tiempo futuro en español
Supervising professor: Mariška Bolyanatz Brown
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
Supervising professor: Mike Shelton
Jacqueline Cao ’22 (Spanish & French)
Stress Perception in Spanish and French: Developments and ‘Deafness’
Supervising professor: Mike Shelton
Samantha Stuart ’22 (Linguistics & Spanish)
Explorando los pronombres de segunda persona singular en Colombia a través de la telenovela La Reina del Flow
Supervising professor: Mike Shelton
Ethan Ferrall ’22 (Linguistics & Spanish)
Intervocalic /p, t, k/ Voicing in Chilean Spanish
Supervising professor: Mariška Bolyanatz Brown
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
Supervising professor: Mariška Bolyanatz Brown
Siena Lucido ’22 (French & Linguistics)
An Investigation into Verlan: The Backwards Slang of France
Supervising professor: Mariška Bolyanatz Brown
2021
Helen Dodd ’21 (French & Linguistics)
The History of and Attitudes Towards the Feminization of Professional Terms in French
Supervising professor: Mike Shelton
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
Supervising professor: Mike Shelton
Zeke Sebastian ’21 (Spanish & Linguistics)
Social Stratification, Language Change, and Exemplar Theory
Supervising professor: Mariška Bolyanatz Brown