Research Projects for Undergraduates

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

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