Finalists (Undergraduate):

1. Christy Lei

2. Amari Grey Johnson

3. Irene Yi

Finalists (Graduate):

1. Jennifer Kaplan

2. Emilie Schiess

3. Andrea Ramirez Barajas

Finalists:

1. Priscilla Sung & Nameera Akhtar - Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz

   • Links between Code-switching and Task-switching in Bilingual Preschoolers

2. Melina Sarian - Linguistics, University of California, Davis  

   • Human vocal alignment to voice AI is mediated by acoustic expressiveness 

3. Megan Simon - Linguistics, San José State University  

   • A hybrid approach to intelligibility between regional dialects of Mam

Judges:

• Jack Hawkins (Linguistics)

• Emily Morgan (Linguistics)

• Robert Blake (Spanish and Portuguese)

Finalists:

1. Peter Joseph Torres - Linguistics, University of California, Davis 

   • 'On a Scale of 1 to 10, How Much Pain Are You in?' Conversations on Chronic Pain and Controlled Substances.

2. Hiba Al Ghabra & Tiffany R. Diebold - Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

   • Constructing Shared Knowledge Through Gesture

3. Silvia Aguinaga Echeverria - Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Davis

   • Building Fluency: A Corpus Based Contrastive Analysis of Formulaic Speech in Students of Spanish as a Second Language and Native Speakers

Judges:

• Eric Russell (French and Italian)

• Nobuko Koyama (East Asian Languages and Cultures)

• Eugênia Fernandes (Spanish & Portuguese)

Finalists:

1. Lisa Gonzalves & Emily Moline - Linguistics, University of California, Davis 

   • Emergent Adult Literacy: Parallels and Divergences Between L1 and L2 Learners

2. Leslie Banes - Math Education, University of California, Davis  

   • Toward Stronger Genre Uptake in Mathematical Argumentative Writing (MAW)

3. Lina Martín-Corredor - University of Texas at San Antonio 

   • Heritage Language Ideologies of Bilingual Teacher Candidates

Judges:

• Travis Bradley  (Spanish and Portuguese)

• Agustina Carando (Spanish and Portuguese)

• Kenji Sagae (Linguistics)

Finalists:

1. Glen Heinrich-Wallace - Linguistics , University of California, Davis

   • “Working Memory and L2 Evaluation: Construct Validity in First-Year Language Testing”

2. Aaron Yamada and Melissa Vega-Valdez - Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Davis

   • “Elliptical tener que in Twitter corpora”

3. Kimberly Morris - Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Davis

   • “Teaching Pragmatics through Tasks: The Case of Beginners in Study Abroad”

Judges:

• Robert Bayley - (Linguistics)

• Noriko Ishihara - (Visiting Scholar, Professor of ESL/TESOL at Hosei University)

• Claudia Sánchez-Gutiérrez - (Spanish and Portuguese)

Finalists:

1. Matthias Sjerps, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley

   • “The initiation of speech planning in turn-taking”

2. Kenton de Kirby - Education, University of California, Berkeley

   • “Complexifying a deficit perspective: A reappraisal of pronoun avoidance and reversal in autism”

3. William Dyer - Linguistics , University of California, Davis

   • “Entropic effects in adjective ordering restrictions”

Judges:

• Robert Blake (Spanish and Portuguese)

• Georgia Zellou (Linguistics)

• Fernanda Ferreira (Psychology)

Finalists:

1. Renee Kemp -  Linguistics, University of California, Davis

2. Dan Villareal - Linguistics, University of California, Davis