Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in LinguisticsFrom 2017, the LAGB proposes to award three prizes for outstanding dissertations or long-form essays in any subfield(s) of linguistics written by undergraduates. Each prize consists of a £100 cash award and one year's free membership of the LAGB.In its first year, the prize attracted an impressively high standard of innovative and original research by undergraduates across the country. We are delighted to announce the inaugural winners of the Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in Linguistics are, in alphabetical order: Sarah Asinari (Queen Mary University of London) for Case Syncretism in Russian Numeral Constructions Charlotte Liu (University College London) for It’s all Cantonese to me: Designing a non-word repetition set for Cantonese Huinan Zeng (University of Sheffield) for The underspecification of the [CORONAL] feature: A study on the perception of word-medial mispronunciation in Mandarin The committee would also like to congratulate the following students on the long list of submissions for their excellent work: Charlotte Bush (Lancaster University): A corpus investigation into how stance adverbs contribute to the creation of YA authors' personae on Twitter |