Finalists:

• Finalists have not been chosen. Selection will be announced closer to the date of the Symposium.

Judges:

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