Congratulations again to our VPUE summer interns!

We would love to congratulate our summer VPUE interns (and their mentors) for their hard work and wonderful poster presentations last week! 

• Carra Rentie, "Variations of Relativizer Omission Across English Dialects" and "Rachel Jeantel and the AAVE (African American Vernacular English) Speaking Witness” (Mentor, John Rickford) - not pictured
• Hollis Kool, "Empathic Storytelling: The Usage of Quotative be like in Conjunction with Discourse Markers for Effective Narration” (Mentor, Rob Podesva)
• Yesid Castro, "The Linguistic Domain of Eyebrow Movement” (Mentor, Rob Podesva) - not pictured
• Brian Hicks, "Tracking the Factivity and Implicativity of Evaluative Adjectives” (Mentors, Stanley Peters and Cleo Condoravdi)
• Gwynn Lyons, "Contractions in Children's Speech: A Study of CHILDES Corpora” (Mentors, Arto Anttila and Joan Bresnan)

Thank you again to our budding linguists for your dedication!