Linguistics Students Recognized as 2024-2025 THI Undergraduate Research Fellows
The Humanities Institute (THI) at UC Santa Cruz has announced its 2024-2025 Undergraduate Research Fellows, with 40% of the fellowship awarded to Linguistics students. Among them, Linguistics major Elliot-Elyjah McWhinnie received the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize for submitting the top research proposal.
Congratulations to the following Linguistics students on their outstanding projects:
- Katherine Arnold, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics & Multilingualism “Nonnative Perception of Italian Consonant Length Contrast”
- Sam Beatty, Linguistics
“Gendered voices and Transgender bodies: Where are we? What are we doing? And who are we talking to?” - Joshua Lieberstein, Linguistics
“Verbless Clauses in Mayan K’ iche’: A non-copular approach” - Elliot-Elyjah Mcwhinnie, Linguistics
“Zooming in on the regional differences of African American Language in California”