Awards

The 9th Symposium on Language Research at UC Davis gave two types of awards: "Best Abstract Awards" and travel grants. Congratulations to all award winners, who are listed below!

Best Abstract Awards:

The Best Abstract Awards were given to submissions who received perfect scores during the abstract review process. Navigate to pages 5-8 of the program to find out when they are presenting and click here to read their abstracts in the proceedings!

• Jade Jiaxuan Dang (University of Edinburgh)

  • Effect of Timing of the Model Text on Alignment in the Iterative Continuation Translation Task

  • Session 1, Panel 1B, 9-10am (p. 5 of the program, p. 11 of the proceedings)

• Tyler Méndez Kline (University of California, Davis)

  • The Perception of Monolingual vs. Code-Switched Sentences in Text-To-Speech (TTS) Voices

  • Session 3, Panel 3A, 2-3pm (p. 8 of the program, p. 38 of the proceedings)

• Xuan Wang (University of Kansas), Yan Shi (University of Utah)

  • A CHILDES Study on Cross-Linguistic Influences and Morphological Salience in Bilingual Childrens' Morpheme Acquisition

  • Session 1, Panel 1B, 9-10am (p. 5 of the program, p. 10 of the proceedings)

Travel Grant Awardees:

We were able to give out 11 travel grants this year, each worth up to $250. Thank you to our generous sponsors for making this possible!

• Jae Hyun Ahn (Indiana University Bloomington)

• M Angel (University of Chicago)

• Grace Farwell (Carleton College)

• Anna Malin Gerke (University of Washington)

• Keiji Iwamoto, Lily Kawaoto (Indiana University Bloomington)

• Noah Khaloo (University of California, San Diego)

• Julian Levine (University of California, Irvine)

• Andres Sanchez (University of California, Berkeley)

• Alexis Schlagenhauf (University of Colorado Boulder)

• Kaleen Shrestha, Deo Joshi (University of California, Santa Cruz)

• Xuan Wang (University of Kansas), Yan Shi (University of Utah)