The theme for this year's annual Graduate Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature (LLL) was "Celebrating Voices -- past - present - future." It reflected not only our goal of celebrating achievements of LLL graduate students, but also our intent of making this the biggest conference yet. The conference opened with an address from Dean Jeffrey Carroll, which was followed by an inspirational keynote by Dr. Samrat Upadhyay. Presentations followed from a group of 35 graduate students, who shared their research with approximately 136 attendees from the UH community. Following a preface from the editors and plenary highlights from Dr. Samrat Upadhyay, contents of these proceedings include: (1) Breaking Ground: Obviation As a Key Target for Assessing the Acquisition of Saulteaux, a Dialect of Ojibwe (Ryan E. Henke); (2) Place-Based Language Learning Using Mobile Technology: Redesigning a Mall Game for Help (Daniel Holden and Yang Liu); (3) The Very Real Effects of an Illusionary Circuit System: Using Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" to Contemplate Black Existence Within White Supremacy (Brittney Frantece); (4) "I See Us All": Pursuing Radical Humanism in Transnational Coalitions (Sam Ikehara); (5) Settler Colonialism and New Age Commercialization of False Indigenous Knowledge (Lauren K. K. Nishimura); (6) The Case of Og: Focusing Arguments in Western Subanon (Colleen O'Brien); (7) Event Structure Metaphor: Mapping from the Chinese Classifier 'Chang' (Reed Riggs); (8) Voice and Ergativity in Roviana (Peter Schuelke); (9) Prosody, Gender and the Japanese Interactional Particle "Ne" (Antonio Vega); (10) The Development and Grammaticalization of the Preposition [Chinese character] in Chinese (Jing Zhou). Individual papers contain references. [For the 2015 Proceedings, see ED573728.]