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Utah: The Ultimate Trendsetter

May 29, 2025 03:00 PM
NPR recently highlighted linguistics professor Dallin D. Oaks’s research on Utah name trends—something he believes is impacted by both politics and nature.
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Mindful Mistakes

April 25, 2025 12:00 PM
Mindfulness techniques have been shown to improve mental health, but they can do much more when used in the classroom.
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A Calamitous Misinterpretation

April 18, 2025 10:36 AM
Misconstruing the meaning of a word can have devastating results—as evidenced by what happened to Chris Rogers and his lost Fulbright Fellowship.
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Good Grief: The Language of Charlie Brown

April 03, 2025 12:00 PM
Seventy-five years after the Peanuts comic’s initial release, Charles Schulz’s daughter offers insight on the linguistics behind the characters’ humor.
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Rate My Rant

March 21, 2025 09:00 AM
Students from across campus joined together to share their passion for their studies through short rants on anything and everything linguistics.
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Hey, Chat! How Do You Speak Chinese?

January 31, 2025 12:00 PM
Tutors can be expensive and hard to find. However, new research shows that AI may provide a suitable alternative to one-on-one tutoring—at half the cost.
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