The students authoring these blogs were each awarded a聽2019聽Linguistics Undergraduate Research Award (LURA 2019)聽for innovative work in a linguistics course at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder. Students in introductory as well as advanced courses were considered for the award. Nominated by faculty, GPTIs,聽and TAs, award winners were asked to create a short blog about their research.聽This project was supported by the ASSETT Faculty Fellows Program.
Game of Linguistics
How did the biggest franchise in TV use linguistics to create a new universe? By... Read more
Vowel Quality in Bohemian Rhapsody: Freddie Mercury vs. Rami Malek
An actor charged with the job of believably capturing another person's idiolect is undertaking something... Read more
Doing Me an Educate: An Overview of Meme Linguistics
Little scholarly research exists on the way language is used in memes, so we took... Read more
Mother-Child Interaction: How Visual Access Affects Repair in Conversation
How do blind children learn to use language conversationally as it is used by sighted... Read more
Oh and Uh and How Mine Changed
What happens to speakers with Indiana accents when they move to 欧美口爆视频? By Timothy Meier... Read more
Living Between Genders
So you talk like a girl, look like a girl, act like a girl. You're... Read more
Gaydar鈥擲ending Mixed Signals
Gaydar is a reified skill that confirms the existence of a gay speech community, but... Read more
Patterns of Language Acquisition in Native Hindi Speakers
Children often pick up a language and learn different elements of grammar in a predictable... Read more
How Migration has Evolved the Romani Language
The study of Roma migration is essential for understanding the grammatical and lexical structure of... Read more
A Child's Acquisition of Polysemy: "of", "with", and "by" in Child English
How do children learn words without "seeing" them in the real world? By Megan Pielke... Read more
An Inside Guide to Everyday Text Talk: The Evolution of 'LOL'
Since when did 鈥楲OL鈥� become so not funny? By Tansee Mcreynolds Course: Language, Gender, and... Read more
Quantifier Scope Ambiguity in English and Turkish
Here's something you may not have realized about language. Sometimes a sentence can be ambiguous,... Read more
Canadian Hick Masculinity
Well, pitter patter let's get at'er. By Kelton Jay Hevelone Course: Language, Gender, and Sexuality... Read more
Should U Rly Be Txtng Ur S/O?
The language of texting may be taking romantic relationships into risky territory. By Anya Berlova... Read more
Catcalling and Politeness Theory
隆Qu茅 curvas y yo sin frenos! By Camila Soffia Course: Language in US Society (Ling... Read more
Internet English and the Evolution of Grammar
Internet English is an emerging language system whose rapid development and complexity has implications for... Read more