Research Groups in Linguistics

Meetings: Mondays from 3:30 - 4:30pm in 4068 JFSB throughout Fall 2023 semester

(1) Discuss the corpus linguistics research that we are currently working on,

(2) Mentor students in conducting their own corpus research,

(3) Demonstrate various corpus linguistics tools and corpus analysis techniques,

(4) Discuss developments in the state of the art.

Last updated September 2023

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.

Last updated September 2023

Last updated September 2023

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.

Last updated September 2023

Meetings: Times and days of week vary. 4055 JFSB (Dr. Nuckolls’s office)

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.

Last updated February 2022

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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.

Last updated September 2023

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.

Last updated September 2023

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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.

Last updated September 2023

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This group is currently investigating academic introductions across several disciplines.

Last updated September 2023

Meetings: This Research Group is on a temporary hiatus until 2024. Future meetings will be updated in January 2024

This research group is a way to get hands-on experience exploring the diversity of systems, structures, and uses of language. The group invites undergraduate and graduate students, as well as interested faculty, from any discipline interested in or using linguistic methods of analysis. The group focuses on the comparisons of linguistic features in a variety of languages (including English).

Last updated September 2023