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2009 Awards (click on any thesis title to download a PDF of the thesis)

John Purvis Prize for best Cognitive Science thesis:
Jeffrey Bye, Testing Models of English Past-tense Inflectional Morphology: Semiregular Patterns

Glass Linguistics Prize for best Linguistics thesis:
Jorie Koster-Moeller, The Syntax and Semantics of Modified Concealed Questions
Jamie Low, Issues in Rendaku: Solving the Nasal Paradox and Reevaluating Current Theories of
Sequential Voicing in Japanese

Karen Kossuth Prize for most innovative Linguistics thesis:
Maile Yeats, Single Event Probabilities


2008 Awards

John Purvis Prize for best Cognitive Science thesis:
Robert Piller, Cerebral Specialization During Lucid Dreaming: a Right Hemisphere Hypothesis
Elisa Rosa, The Impact of Aging on Emotion in Language Production

Glass Linguistics Prize for best Linguistics thesis:
Laura McPherson, A Descriptive and Theoretical Account of Luganda Verbal Morphology

Karen Kossuth Prize for most innovative Linguistics thesis:
Elizabeth Hamilton, Trans Tactics: Gender Construction by Transgender Speakers of American English


2007 Awards

John Purvis Prize for best Cognitive Science thesis:
Stephen Conn, Critiquing Findings of Depressive Realism in Contingency Judgment Tasks: Examining the Effects of Outsome Density and Response Rate

Glass Linguistics Prize for best Linguistics thesis:
Hannah Pick, Mexican-American Chicago English (MACE): a Case Study of Four Speakers