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Missionary Voice: Real or Fake?

June 25, 2024 09:42 AM
For many students at BYU, missionaries are commonly seen, talked about, and become the topic of discussion at church on Sunday. Do missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints speak differently than other people their age?
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It's just a Review, Right?

May 08, 2024 08:58 AM
Finding a restaurant has never been so easy—open up Google Maps and look up what you want to eat, scan reviews, and then go there, but is there actually a methodology to a review?
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Speech Patterns within Fast Speech

May 03, 2024 10:25 AM
Mental representations of speech affect how fast or slow we say certain words, resulting in fast speech for certain words—but what determines the mental representation of a word in our brain?
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Life Changing Work on BYU Campus

March 28, 2024 02:49 PM
Why would students from Mexico, Korea, Ukraine, Cote d’Ivoire, China and elsewhere come to BYU?
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ELC Offers Opportunities for Cambodian to Serve His Country

March 28, 2024 02:14 PM
Learning a language is not always easy, especially when it affects your future, but Chhour Kim has decided to fight the odds to learn English so he can serve his home country, Cambodia.
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Academic Writing Courses Regrouped

March 25, 2024 01:58 PM
Should disciplines like biology and physics be grouped together in academic writing courses, or is it more effective to group together physics and political science?
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It's All About the Right Words

March 08, 2024 01:53 PM
Learning a discipline isn’t easy—how do students overcome the language barrier when seeking to understand the language used in a specialized field such as Applied Linguistics?
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Breaking the Sound Barrier in Dance

February 23, 2024 03:11 PM
Dance Theater involves sound: music, communication, and teamwork — how can Deaf and hard of hearing dancers and audiences be integrated into dance productions?
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Rethinking Tests of Vocabulary Size

February 08, 2024 03:02 PM
Vocabulary size tests assume that people learn the most frequent vocabulary words first—but is frequency the only factor that matters?
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Meet Dr. Wolfersberger

April 04, 2023 01:15 PM
Newest Visiting Professor from BYU-Hawai'i
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Dr. Elzinga gives presentation to Tribe of Many Feathers

February 22, 2023 03:57 PM
Dr. Elzinga shared his experiences in local indigenous language documentation with the Tribe of Many Feathers club.
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Meet Dr. Hashimoto

February 14, 2023 01:42 PM
Avid tennis player, corpus linguist, and man of the people
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Meet Dr. Green

January 04, 2023 01:27 PM
Syntactician gone neurolinguist— Dr. Green is working to understand what the brain can teach us about how language works.
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Meet Dr. Stanley

December 02, 2022 01:25 PM
In addition to growing succulents in his windowsill, making artisan bread, and practicing the organ, Dr. Joey Stanley teaches courses on sociolinguistics and variations in English at BYU.
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13 Affiliated Linguists May Direct Theses and Teach Linguistics Courses

October 31, 2022 10:34 AM
Find our updated list of affiliates here.
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Meet Our Newest Full-Time Faculty Member

October 10, 2022 11:45 AM
When she’s not teaching English in Russia or teaching her dog to communicate using buttons, you can find Dr. Miriam Whiting teaching courses on language policy & planning, editing, and discourse analysis here at the BYU Department of Linguistics.
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What's in a Naighm?

June 07, 2022 02:06 PM
Dr. David Eddington investigates what sets Utah names apart.
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