Student Participation
At the SECOL XXXII held March 28-30 March 1985, the Ececutive committee established the Reza Ordoubadian Award, a cash prize presented annually, recognizing the best student paper presented at the spring conference. Ann Pember was the first to receive this prestigious award.
SECOL members should use the check off box on the annual membership form. Members wishing to make anonymous contributions may do so. Friends of SECOL may contribute by contacting Dr. Robin Sabino at sabinro@auburn.edu.
To be considered for this year's prize, all authors must have been members of SECOL in 2009 and must have registered for SECOL LXXVI . Student authors wishing to have their papers considered for the 2009 Reza Ordoubadian Award should send 3 copies to the address below. Papers must be received by December 4, 2009.
- Megan E. MelanHon, Assistant Professor
- Dept. of English, Speech, and Journalism
- Georgia College and State University, CBX 044
- Milledgeville, GA 31061
| Award Year | Title | Winner/Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | No award was given in this year | |
| 2008 | "The Evolution of /l/ Across Three Generations of African Americans" | Janneke Van Hofwegen/ N. Carolina State U |
| 2007 | No award was given in this year | |
| 2006 | "A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Pause in North Carolina" | Tyler Kendall/ Duke U/N. Carolina State U |
| 2005 | No award was given in this year | |
| 2004 | First Place: "A Crosslinguistic Comparison of Rhythm in Spanish & English by Raleigh Bilinguals" | Phillip M. Carter/ N. Carolina State U |
| Second Place: "Vocalic Alignment on Roanoke 'Oi'land" | Sarah Hilliard/ Duke U & Jeannine Carpenter/N Carolina State U | |
| 2003 | "Multimedia Projects in Community-based Fieldwork" | Ben Torbert/ Duke U |
| 2000 | "Native American Language History Traced through Consonant Cluster Reduction" | Ben Torbert / N Carolina State U |
| 1999 | Glenda Lynn Rose /Old Dominion U | |
| 1998 | "Pronominal Clitic Stress in Rio de la Plata Spanish: An Optimality of Florida" | Maria I. Moyna /U of Florida) |
| 1997 | "Distinctiveness in the face of dialect death: The case of Smith Island English" | Natalie Schilling-Estes/ N Carolina State U |
| 1994 | Adrianne Cheek / | |
| 1995 | "The significance of subject-verb concord in vernacular varieties" | Kirk Hazen/N Carolina State U |
| 1991 | "Dissimilation of Noncontiguous Consonants in English" | Sally Green/U N Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 1989 | Vivian Brown, Texas A & M U | |
| 1987 | No award was given in this year |
Contact wilbur@louisiana.edu if you can provide missing information.
The following SECOL members have generously contributed to the Reza Ordoubadian Award
- Dr. Mary Zeigler (2010)
- Dr. Connie Eble (2009, 2010)
- Dr. Bettie Rose Horn (2009, 2010)
- Drs. Sara Sanders and Steve Nagel (2009, 2010)
- Dr. Connie Eble (2008)
- Dr. Steven Gross (2008)
- Dr. Lynn K Varn (2008)
- Dr. Connie Eble (2007)
- Dr. Clai Rice (2007)
- Dr. Mary Zeigler (2007)
- Dr. Carol Myers-Scotton (2006)
- Dr. Mary Zeigler (2006)