Several students and faculty members received SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) awards this semester.

Kenji Rackoff received a SURF award to work on a project entitled “The Role of Cognitive Abilities in Second Language Sound Learning,” under the direction of faculty member Hanyong Park. In this project, they will investigate whether learners’ inhibitory control accounts for individual differences in learning non-native speech sounds.

Meadow Conner, Lisa Quintero, and Charles Rojas received SURF awards to work on a project entitled “The Poverty of the Stimulus: The case of word-final devoicing in second-language acquisition,” under the direction of faculty members Fred Eckman and Jae Yung Song.

Isa Bright received a SURF award to work on a project titled “Cognitive control and context sensitivity in scalar implicature derivation”, under the direction of faculty member Glenn Starr. 

Congratulations, all!