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Rachel Bowden

Linguistics Secretary
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Missionary Voice: Real or Fake?

By Rachel Bowden
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?

By Rachel Bowden
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?
4 Min Read
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Speech Patterns within Fast Speech

By Rachel Bowden
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?
4 Min Read
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Life Changing Work on BYU Campus

By Rachel Bowden
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

By Rachel Bowden
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.
5 Min Read
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Academic Writing Courses Regrouped

By Rachel Bowden
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

By Rachel Bowden
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

By Rachel Bowden
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

By Eric Christensen
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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