Archive of Completed MA Theses in Linguistics
Completed MA Theses
Below you will find the titles and authors of completed MA theses within the MA Linguistics program. Some theses have been uploaded to ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive) with the approval of the authors.
Autumn Semester 2024
Mu Oscillations and Inhibitory Control in ADHD During a Conversational Turn-Taking Paradigm |
Sarah Baur |
GramaticEYEs: Integrating Eye Movements into the Modeling of Linguistic Acceptability Judgments |
Anna Bondar |
A Comparative Study of Human and Whisper ASR Performance in Identifying Whispered Mandarin Tones |
Chen Haonan |
Transfer Effects of Mandarin Tone and Music Melody Training on German Intonation Perception in Noisy Environments |
Cui Hao |
| Mariia Fedorova | |
Information Extraction in Radiology using Large Language Models |
Veronica Girolimetti |
Examining the Impact of Tinnitus Frequency on Phoneme Perception in Individuals with Chronic Tinnitus: A Behavioral Study |
Jinyi Han |
Multimodal Alignment Model for Chest X-Ray Analysis: Integrating Image and Text Features |
Wenjing He |
A grammatical description of Suruwahá (Arawá) |
Adriana Maria Huber Azevedo |
From Pointing to Speech: A Case Study on Early Communicative Development in a Shipibo-Konibo community |
Mariana Illescas Buendia |
Animacy Effects in Subject-modified Relative Clause Processing of Mandarin Chinese |
Yang Liu |
LLaVA Adaptation for CXRs: Grounding Anatomical Regions and Detecting Abnormalities |
Jing Ma |
Investigating Breathing Patterns in Sign Language Storytelling: An Exploratory Study |
Longqian Ming |
The Discourse around the Menstrual Cycle: A Diachronic Analysis of the Semantics of Period Vocabulary |
Lina Emily Philipp |
The Effect of Expressive Dynamic Facial Information on Cross-Modal Identity Matching |
Allison Andrea Ponce de Leon Diaz |
Cross-Linguistic Articulatory Dynamics: A Study of Diphthong Production in Swiss German and English |
Mirela-Vasilica Ratoi |
Exploring Hate Speech Detection Models: A Focus on Emoji-Based Hate Speech and Functionalities |
Xiaoyao Ren |
Reconstructing Reflexivity: A Typological Approach to Indo-European Reflexive Constructions |
Tobias Seefeld |
Enhancing RAG-based QA on Large Closed-Domain Corpora with Hierarchical Retrieval and Metadata-based Document Representations |
Alice Sizer |
The Role of Anxiety in Foreign Language Learning in the Third Age |
Elena Trishina |
Comparing the Performance of Neural Network and N-Gram as Draft Models for Speculative Decoding in MambaByte |
Mengjie Wu |
Syntactic Evaluation of Cross-linguistic Text Generation with English and Chinese Prompts |
Ruomeng Xu |
Complexity of Adnominal Clauses in English and Persian: A Parallel Corpus-based Study |
Arezoo Zandy |
| Filtering and Sorting of Notices to Air Missions (NOTAMS) | Anna Mogillo-Dettwiler |
| Fifth versus tritone frequency filter ratio in frequency modulated signals - an analysis of timbre perception | Scarlet Gieser |
Spring Semester 2024
| The Influence of Prosodic Information on the Accuracy of Turn-End Prediction in Overheard Dialogues | Tiana Arbutina |
| SLA and Disability: Socio-affective Influences on Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities’ EFL Learning Experience in Switzerland | Rebecca Baeriswyl |
| Perception in Persuasion: A Cognitive Stylistic Character Analysis of Jane Austen’s Anne Elliot | Diana Büchi |
| Anwendungsorientierte Evaluation einer quantitativen Methode und stilistischen Merkmalen für den forensisch-linguistischen Textvergleich |
Martina Eberle |
| Fine-tuning the SwissBERT Encoder Model for Embedding Sentences and Documents | Juri L. Grosjean |
| A Data-Driven Analysis of World Englishes: Australian, British and American English | Samira Lea Hobi |
| Computational Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Production in L1-German and Native English-speaking Pupils | Yang Yang |
| Exploring the Complexities of Transliteration: A Study on Algerian Arabizi | Khadidja Manaa |
| Perception of English Accents and Language Attitudes: A Sociolinguistic Study in Swiss Albanian University Students | Anila Haziri |
| Integrative Emergenztheorie. Argumentation für (k)eine neue Sprachtheorie unter Berücksichtigung von Large Language Models | Maaike Kellenberger |
| Investigating Intrinsic F0: From Mandarin Speech Production to Perceptual Recognition | Xiyang Li |
| Evaluating Text-to-Speech: Speech Rhythm in Human Speech and Text-to-Speech | Zhang Linyu |
| Examining the Impact of Gemination on Intrinsic F0 in Arabic Among L1 and L2 Speakers | Jiachen Ma |
| Massively multilingual speech corpora as a resource for investigating phonetic universals: Consonant F0 effects in Catalan | Bogdan Pricop |
| Second Language Rhyme in English for Cantonese Speakers | Linpei Sun |
| Die Verschriftung des Berndeutschen in WhatsApp-Kommunikation. Eine graphematische Untersuchung | Rosemarie J. Schenk |
Pupillary Speech Tracking |
Giorgia Sironi |
| Enhancing Language Accessibility: A Usability and Usefulness Study of a Text-to-Pictogram Application | Li Jian |
| The Variability of Unagreement and the Fallibility of φ-Agreement. A Crosslinguistic, Constraint-based Account with Special Reference to Swahili and Georgian | Adrian O. Porras |
Autumn Semester 2023
| Comparison of Sentence and Word Aligners for Translation Alternatives in a Parallel German-English Corpus | Anna Balanova |
| Automatic Speech Recognition on Swiss German Dialects: The Impact of Linguistic Properties on System Performance | Christina Früh |
| Resting State EEG and Cognitive Functioning in Hearing Impaired Adults | Jaipreet Singh Ghuman |
| Automatic Prominence Detection in English L2 | Irma Krob |
| Rhoticity in Mandarin Chinese: An Acoustic Analysis | Mengyang Ren |
| Automatic Classification of Academic Papers According to the UN Sustainable Development Goals – An Interdisciplinary Perspective | Jessica S. Roady |
| Grassroots English at South Korean Markets Motivation and Attitudes of Mature Adult Market Vendors Towards the Use of English as a Foreign Language | Sabrina Ryffel |
| An Acoustic Analysis of the Turkish Vowel System | Pelin A. Teberoglu |
| Are Chinese Adjectives ‘Verbier’ Than Their English Counterparts? A Corpus-Based Contrastive Analysis | Yuan Yuan Xu |
| Entity Linking – Comparison, Performance Evaluation and Application in Corpora | Giorgio Yong |
| Normalising the Mean Word Length for Measuring of Linguistic Diversity | Leo T. Pan |
Spring Semester 2023
Evaluation of Pre-trained Metrics and ChatGPT as Document-level Machine Translation Metrics |
Naomi Bleiker |
Learning a Decoding Objective from Human-Generated Text |
Alison Y. Kim |
| Ai Chen | |
La calidad de las traducciones automáticas con el foco en traducciones de textos jurídicos |
Hans Hegetschweiler |
| Clemens F. Lutz | |
Does Noise Removal Affect Voice Recognition? |
Magdalena M. Soll |
Romance Plurilingualism as a Resource for Teaching Spanish and French in Ticino: Analysis of the Didactics of Plurilingualism for Foreign Language Learning |
Giulia Mina |
A Longitudinal Classroom Study of the Acquisition of Verb + Preposition Collocations with Corpus Learning and Detecting Learning Errors through Automatic Retrieval of Collocations |
Nadja Näf |
More than Words Can Say: A Multimodal Approach to Hate-Speech-Detection. |
Julia M. Ulrich |
Morphological Complexity Metrics as Predictors of Phylogenetic Relatedness: A Case Study in Slavic, Baltic and Germanic |
Dejan Wäckerlin |
| Hans-Jürgen Wolter | |
An Analysis of Face-Threatening Acts and Face- Saving Strategies in Online Comments |
Mengqing Duan |
Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR): A New Incremental Processing Paradigm |
Cui Ding |
Autumn Semester 2022
Spring Semester 2022
| Shifting Pronouns and Disruptive Technology. Studying Singular 'They' with GPT-3 | Carlos Hartmann |
| Uncovering Serial Verb Constructions in Tibeto-Burman Languages | Nora Muheim |
| A Natural Language Processing Approach to Spanish and Portuguese se. Classifying se-Constructions through Active Learning and with Transformer Models | Maxine Hofstetter |
| Reconstructing the spatio-temporal evolution of the Dravidian language family | Tai Hong |
| Measurement Reliability of Individual Differences in Sentence Processing and the Influence of Cognitive Capacities | Iva Koncic |
Autumn Semester 2021
| Intransitive sentence planning in German: Differences in Beta and Alpha Power in the Production of Unaccusative and Unergative Sentences | Arvesa Shala |
| Other-Initiated Repair in Children's Language Acquisition. Universal Principles and Patterns of Variation | Nina Arisci |
| 'Labradors' are not laboratories': Understanding End-to-End Speech Translation | Michael W. Stähli |
| Die tschechischen Modalverben muset und mít im Vergleich. Eine korpusbasierte, diachrone Untersuchung | Lea Gafner |
| Vowel Space and Vowel Variability in Infant-directed Speech: A Cross-Register Study on Mandarin | Xueying Liu |
| An Evaluation of the Performance of SpaCy NER Working With Different Domains | Nurdan Ay |
Spring Semester 2021
| Predicting Corporate Credit Ratings Based on Annual Reports | Angelina Pustynskaia |
| Le Lavandare: Intermezzi in dialetto romanesco. Nuova edizione e commento linguistico | Lisa Gasner |
| Creation of a Bulgarian Polarity Lexicon and Classification of Reviews for Sentiment Analysis | Iliyana Kamenova |