Spring 2024 Graduates

Thank you to my family, friends, and significant other for their love and support which helped see me through this journey. Many thanks to Bhuvana, my advisor, who helped me put my chaotic thoughts down on paper, put up with my shenanigans, and got me through this process. Couldn't have done it without all of you! Dissertation: Examining the role of inherent and derived prominence in Tagalog voice and word...

I want to thank my girlfriend, faculty (special mention to Dr. Palmer), and friends! Graduating from CU Boulder with my MA was only possible with you at my side.

I would like to thank my family and friends for their support throughout this program. Thesis: An Analysis of the Phonological Loanword Processes of English Technological Words into French

Thank you to my family, my friends, and to CU Boulder for helping me through my scholarly endeavors. With my degree, I hope to pursue a career in Language Education and eventually develop new language learning technologies and software.

Thank you to my family for all your love and support! I love you. My favorite quote is “Kindess is never wasted,” and my favorite memory is taking a whole cosmos pizza home from a LING event I didn’t go to! My future plans are hopefully naval aviation. Fly navy!

Dissertation: Morphophonemics of Classical Latin

"Working so hard every night and day. And now we get the pay back" - Gwen Stefani, Luxurious

I will be working as a Rhetoric and Composition lecturer for the 24-25 academic year before continuing on to my PhD. Thesis: Assessing the Correlation Between Linguistic Richness Concentration and Assigned Grade Level of Secondary Ed. English Language Arts Texts

路漫漫其修远兮，吾将上下而求索。 ------ 屈原 《楚辞·离骚》 "Long, long is my road, and far, far is the journey; high and low, up and down, I'll search with will." (Qu Yuan, "Chuci ·Lisao" ("The Lament"))

I plan on getting a data linguist/language engineer job and staying in Colorado. I'm looking forward to what the future holds for my Linguistics degree!

Thesis: The Cisgender Listening Subject in Sibilant Perception

Thank you to all the friends and mentors I've met here! I owe my amazing time here to you! Thesis: Testing a Place-of-Articulation Double Phoneme Boundary in English-Tamil Bilinguals

My love and appreciation go to everyone who has been a part of my life here at CU Linguistics: professors, family, friends, and colleagues, who have accompanied me through the ups and downs of this challenging but amazing journey. Dissertation: Modeling Singlish: Authentic Hybridity in a Model Nation

"The road to success is always under construction" - Lily Tomlin

"Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves." -James Joyce

Thanks mom and dad!

After so much sacrifice, I’m the first person in my family to graduate college! Linguistics has opened my eyes to people around me, and how much more I have left to learn from others. I leave this institution an eternal student with my arms extended towards the person I will become.

Thanks to everyone who got me here! Dissertation: Hearing Voices as Atypical Social Agents

“The road to success is always under construction.” —Lily Tomlin Despite the detours, we're finally here. To the friends and family who urged me to stay patient and persistent, I sincerely thank you. Your support and encouragement has meant the world to me. I hope to empower others to pursue their goals just as you've done for me.

"I dream it, I work hard, I grind 'til I own it." - Beyonce Future plans: Working with Teach For America in Minneapolis as a K-6 TESOL professional. I would like to acknowledge Professor Rai Farrelly as a major influence in my passion for and career in linguistics. Thank you to my wonderful family and friends for supporting me along this journey.

It's bittersweet to leave CU after five eventful years, and I'm grateful for the knowledge I've received (and created!) in collaboration with so many brilliant thinkers and learners here. Thank you also to my friends, boyfriend, and family for encouraging me to work hard and take breaks, especially in this last year. I'm changed for the better because of my time in the Linguistics program at CU, and I look...

I am excited to step into the professional world after graduating from CU. I had a fantastic time during my undergrad and can't wait to use the knowledge I have accumulated in my studies to further my success in academic and professional settings.

Thank you to my family, Cameron, and Rebecca for all of your support during this process--I couldn't have done it without any of you, and I appreciate you all celebrating this accomplishment with me. Dissertation: Synchronic Sound Change as a Unique Look at Representation in /aɪ/ Raising in Fort Wayne, Indiana

"Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression" - Audre Lorde Thesis: “I THINK I’M FUNNIEST WHEN I’M MY MOST AUTISTIC”: TRANS AUTISTIC ABSURDITY IN INTRACOMMUNITY HUMOROUS INTERACTION

I will be pursuing a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Arizona in the fall, focusing on Indigenous language revitalization and maintenance. I would like to thank my family and friends for their support and guidance: my mother & my grandparents for their unconditional love and support, my sister Jasmin, and my best friend Sani'a (Suh-ni-uh). My accomplishments would not be a reality if it were not for the...

I’d like to thank the brilliant LING and ALC faculty, my friends and my family for their support. I plan to continue teaching Japanese in the United States. This has been the best two years of my life!