Student Work

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 Speech, 93(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?