Spring 2026 application for undergraduate students
The Linguistics Department is pleased to announce
a new round of applications for LURAP for Spring 2026!
- Applications open: Tuesday, March 10, 2026.
- Deadline to apply: Friday, March 20, 2026.
- LURAP pairing decisions will go out during the last week of March (March 30 - April 03).
Note: If you participated in LURAP in the Winter 2026 quarter and would like to continue in the Spring 2026 quarter, you MUST complete a NEW LURAP application.
Complete The Application
Please use your @uw.edu email account
Descriptions of Research Projects Accepting New Applications in Spring 2026
Creating an Emotion Corpus of Infant-directed speech
Ella De Falco
Language Technology for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR)
Fei Xia
Introduction to Linguistics: Inclusion, Belonging, and Curriculum
Katie Lindekugel
Korean Sentence Processing Study
Yoojin Oh
Santiago Laxopa Zapotec automatic speech recognition and fieldwork processing
Myke Brinkerhoff
T-glottalization and strengthening in dialects of American English
Myke Brinkerhoff
Research assistance on topics in semantics and syntax
Toshiyuki Ogihara
Tu'un Savi Dictionary Project
Andrew Hedding
Language Input in the Amazonian Indigenous Context: A case study from Panãra
Jessamine Jeter
Sanmen Wu and Xinchang Wu
Jessica Luo
Sociophonetics of MS Gulf Coast Speech and its Interaction with Automated Speech Recognition
Ty Gill-Saucier
Olof and Agatha Hanson Project
Lance Forshay
Digitizing and building a corpus of language audio (new project)
Myke Brinkerhoff
Non-Adjacent Dependency Learning in Sign Language (new project)
Yuting Zhang
Verb Agreement Production in Chinese Sign Language: An Elicited Imitation Study of Native and Late L1 Signers (new project)
Yuting Zhang
Heritage languages matter, full sto[ʔ]: Sociophonetic variation in Yakama plosives (new project)
Flo Humbert
Analyzing [ɛ] in Bambaiya Hindi (new project)
Sunkulp Ananthanarayan
Behavioral and neural studies on ASL perceptual processing (new project)
Qi Cheng
Thai Serial Verb Constructions: Automatic Derivation of Semantic Representations, Language Learning, and Error Detection (new project)
Vipasha Bansal
Other Currently Active Research Projects not accepting applications from new applicants at this time
Bias in Automatic Speech Recognition (Sociolinguistics) Project
Alicia Wassink
Computational Morphological and Grammatical Documentation of Coahuilteco to Support its Revitalization
Christopher Haberland
Characterizing infant-directed speech and song in parents
Lindsay Hippe
Bias in Automatic Speech Recognition (Bias-in-ASR) Project
Flo Humbert
Promoting Fairness for under-represented Languages in Multilingual Large Language Models
Gina-Anne Levow
Turkic Segmentation
Talant Mawkanuli
Bidirectional Responsiveness in Infant-Caregiver Interactions
Adeline Braverman