Research Groups in Linguistics

Meetings: Mondays from 3:30 - 4:30pm in 4068 JFSB throughout Winter 2024 semester

Meetings: Mondays at 2 or Wednesdays at 9 in 4071 JFSB

From the everyday use of legal terms (e.g. 'tm') to the legal ramifications of ordinary language use in the courtroom, this project looks at the ways in which the law shapes our everyday discourse. German speakers especially encouraged to reach out for a cross-linguistic study. Those interested in prosody also encouraged to reach out.

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Embodiment is a perspective that we understand the world first through our relationship to our bodies, and that linguistic expressions often contain body imagery. This project looks at various aspects of body metaphors, classifications of physical activities, and other semantics of body relations.

Meetings: Monday from 10:00 - 11:00 PM via Zoom

This project looks at various technical and substantive editing choices in early church history as well as in various scriptures. Examples include work on Book of Mormon punctuation and the Joseph Smith Papers analyzing language and editing choices.

We are actively working on writing and preparing to publish, a grammatical description of a variety of Quechua, called Kichwa, spoken in Amazonian Ecuador. Prior experience with summer research during a BYU Ecuador Study Abroad is a requirement.

We are also editing and adding video clips of Quechua speakers to our online corpus Quechuarealwords. Any students with prior experience in Quechua/Kichwa wanting to join this project are welcome.

Meetings: Fridays at 3:15 in JFSB 4068 starting January 2024

The LSEG is a fun, social opportunity for professional development, networking, and skill development focusing on linguistic tools and techniques. This group is open to anyone affiliated with BYU and focuses.

Check out more information and see future results of research projects here.

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The Editing and Publishing Research Group includes scholars from across the United States who are involved in editing, publishing, writing, and linguistics research. The group is currently focused on establishing BYU’s Faculty Publishing Service (FPS) as a site that can generate data for research projects.

Meetings: Contact either professor for meeting times, information on projects, etc.

We study how the brain processes language using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and Electroencephalography (EEG) technologies. We welcome advanced Linguistics majors or highly motivated students with less linguistic background who are interested in neuroscience and in how the brain functions.

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We are a group of faculty and students interested in the psychology of language learning. Most recently, our efforts have focused on self-regulation, positive psychology, motivation and anxiety/stress. We have conducted research involving second language learners of English, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian. We welcome those interested in how psychological variables affect the acquisition of these and other second languages.

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This group is currently investigating academic introductions across several disciplines.