Winter 2026 application for undergraduate students
The Linguistics Department is pleased to announce
a new round of applications for LURAP for Winter 2026!
- Applications open: Tuesday, November 25, 2025.
- Deadline to apply: Friday, December 5, 2025.
- LURAP pairing decisions will go out during the first week of Winter Quarter (January 5-9, 2026).
Note: If you were participating in LURAP for the Autumn 2025 quarter and would like to continue in the Winter 2026 quarter, you MUST complete a NEW LURAP application (or respond to Prof. Ogihara's email in your inbox).
Complete The Application
Please use your @uw.edu email account
(Returning LURAP students must also re-apply for their project)
Descriptions of Research Projects Accepting New Applications in Winter 2026
Creating an Emotion Corpus of Infant-directed speech (new project)
Ella De Falco
Language Technology for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR) (new project)
Fei Xia
Introduction to Linguistics: Inclusion, Belonging, and Curriculum (new project)
Katie Lindekugel
Korean Sentence Processing Study (new project)
Yoojin Oh
Characterizing infant-directed speech and song in parents
Lindsay Hippe
Santiago Laxopa Zapotec fieldwork processing
Mykel Brinkerhoff
T-glottalization and strengthening in dialects of American English
Mykel Brinkerhoff
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
Efficient communication and convexity
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
Assisting with the preparation of a handbook on tense and aspect and some additional research-related tasks
Toshiyuki Ogihara
Olof and Agatha Hanson Project
Lance Forshay
Tu'un Savi Dictionary Project
Andrew Hedding
Language Input in the Amazonian Indigenous Context: A case study from Panãra
Jessamine Jeter, Naja Ferjan Ramírez & Myriam Lapierre
Sanmen Wu and Xinchang Wu
Jessica Luo & Myriam Lapierre
Role of early input on Deaf bilingual language development
Qi Cheng
Turkic Segmentation
Talant Mawkanuli
Bidirectional Responsiveness in Infant-Caregiver Interactions
Adeline Braverman
Sociophonetics of MS Gulf Coast Speech and its Interaction with Automated Speech Recognition
Ty Gill-Saucier & Alicia Wassink
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
Previous Research Projects
(not accepting applications from new applicants at this time)
The Use and Perception of Roman Hindi-Urdu
Saiya Karamali & Betsy Evans
Analysis of LLM thought text chains for graph traversal
Rev Rameshkumar & Fei Xia
Cluster Analysis of Emotion Terms in Panãra
Ella De Falco & Myriam Lapierre #1
Excrescent Vowels in Panãra
Ella De Falco & Myriam Lapierre #2
Documenting Gyegu Tibetan
Trent Ukasick & Sharon Hargus
Eye-tracking study for perception and production of consonant clusters
Yuan Chai #1
Yateé Zapotec Documentation Archival
Yuan Chai #2
SparkLing development
Kaveri Sheth & Naja Ferjan Ramírez
Korean Sentence Processing Study
Yoojin Oh & Seahee Choi
Pacific Northwest English Study – Public Engagement Project
Alicia Wassink #2
Variation in implosive and ejective consonants
Richard Wright
Investigating bilingual language control in sentence vs. lexical-level processing
Yoojin Oh & Qi Cheng
Iconic artificial language learning
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
Documentation & Description of the Panãra language
Sunkulp Ananthanarayan & Myriam Lapierre
Compounding in Sign Language
Yuting Zhang & Qi Cheng