Fall 2020, Volume 8, Number 1

Editor: Peter Guekguezian, Year:2020

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Investigating Effects of Emphasis on the Modeled Auditory Brainstem Response

John Kyle Cooper and Sam Zhao

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The Effects of the French Vowel Inventory on Vowel Production in Spanish Speakers

Leonor Teles and Olivia Huey

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Using Peripheral Models to Improve Responses to Speech in Computational Models of the Auditory Cortex

Nicholas Cimaszewski and Benjamin Richardson

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Syntactic-Semantic Analysis of Classifiers in Mandarin

Jiaxing Yu

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Towards an Improved Lexicon of Relational Nouns

Elizabeth Lee

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Place-Names of Rochester, New York: Language, History, Politics, Culture, and Identity in Rochester's Neighborhoods

Megan Eichas

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