Two professors and four students at a lingusitics conference
Four Middlebury students co-present their research at a linguistics conference with Professors Rohena-Madrazo and Baird

Collaborative research with faculty

Baird, Brandon, Marcos Rohena-Madrazo, & Caroline Cating (Midd ‘17). (2018). Perceptions of lexically specific phonology switches on Spanish-origin loanwords in American English. American Speech93(1), 79-107. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-6904043 

Gilbert, Madeline B. (Midd ‘14) & Marcos Rohena-Madrazo. (2017). Revising the canon: Social and Stylistic Variation of Coda (-ɾ) in Buenos Aires Spanish. In R. E. V. Lopes, J. Ornelas de Avelar, & S. M. L. Cyrino (Eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12: Selected papers from the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Campinas, Brazil (pp. 63-78). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.12.05gil 

Recent student spring research symposium presentations

2023

“Oratory Now! and Meiji Japan”- Max Gibson

“Esperantists: An Investment in Global Citizenship”- Julia Price

“The Omittance of US Varieties in Middlebury Spanish Courses “- AJ Rossbach

“Analyzing Twitter Profiles and Activities of Top USA Oil and Gas Companies”- Brian Lee, Noah Vogel, Michelle Wang

“The Relationship Between French and English in Québec”- Sarah Kimmel, Annika Milliman, Christopher O’Connell

““The Historical Development and Grammaticalization of the Morpheme Le in Standard Chinese Grammar”- Donovan Compton 

2022

“Pronunciation and Appropriation: How Single-Word Choices Reveal the Intersections of Relationships, Identity, Context and Language”- Riley Board

“Learning Glottophobia: Examining Accent Preferences and Prejudices of Middlebury”- Jennie Bob Bizal-Clark

““The Impact of Second Language Background on The Sensitivity of Emotional Prosody”- Yuka Tatsumi

2021

“Linguistic Study of Reddit Comments”- Jackson Chen

“Classes in Spanish, home in Portuñol: (mis)education on the Uruguayan Border”- Spencer Royston

“Fostering Community and Inclusion for Heritage Language Learners of Spanish”- Sean Rhee & Kevin Mata

“Teaching Languages with Music”- Kyle Kuzman

Other student projects

Lila Sternberg-Sher (‘22) Podcast episode: “Latinx”: Can inclusive language be exclusionary?