BYU Linguistics

Today, Kateryna Kravchenko, one of our very own Linguistics MA students, participated in the University level 3 minute thesis! Congratulations and way to represent!

Read more about this article in “It’s All About the Right Words” on our website linked below!
https://ling.byu.edu/its-all-about-the-right-words

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“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?”

Read more about this article in “It’s All About the Right Words” on our website linked below!
https://ling.byu.edu/its-all-about-the-right-words

Our department had the chance to participate in escape rooms for their retreat recently. As you can see, they had so much fun in these escape rooms and enjoyed working together to solve the puzzles!

Mother and daughter Maren (SLaT MA ’23) and Sonja (TESOL MA ’23) Mecham never intended on completing their master’s programs together—and certainly not on the same day. Although it was a coincidence that they finished the same semester, their shared experience allowed them to help each other throughout the process and grow closer together as mother and daughter.

Read more at hum.byu.edu/mother-and-daughter-defend-theses-together

Interested in learning more about the process and history of books? Want to learn how to pound papyrus and assemble a printing press? Join the History of the Book course offered this coming fall semester! ELING 524 will be offered for linguistics department students, and ENGL 340 is a good alternative for semesters where ELING 524 isn’t available.

Read more about the general course content at hum.byu.edu/the-history-of-the-book

Professor Dallin D. Oaks publishes book on Latter-day Saint naming trends.

Read more about the book at hum.byu.edu/dallin-d-oaks-publishes-new-book

Recent awards for Dr. Baker and Dr. Hashimoto! Be sure to congratulate them and ask them more about their work.

Learn more about CSCA and Dr. Baker’s award at csca-net.org/aws/CSCA/pt/sp/awards

Learn more about BYU’s Research Development Office and Dr. Hashimoto’s award at researchdevelopment.byu.edu/idr-awards

Meet Dr. Wolfersberger: Newest Visiting Professor from BYU-Hawai’i!

Read more about him and his research interests at ling.byu.edu/meet-dr-wolfersberger

The Language Acquisition Research Colloquium (LARC) series explores how to optimize course content to help students meet language goals.

Read more at hum.byu.edu/larc-language-learning-byu-cls

What does a future with AI translation look like?

Read more about the history of machine translation, application in the Church, synchronized speech, and the future of AI at hum.byu.edu/the-future-of-machine-translation

This is a great intro class being taught Spring term!

Could you present an entire master’s thesis in just three minutes? Graduate students Deven Hunsaker (Linguistics ‘23) and Mishelle Kehoe (TESOL ‘23), along with several other students, did just that on February 16. Read more about their theses at hum.byu.edu/three-minute-thesis-linguistics-style

AI won’t replace teachers anytime soon, but it can be used for language learning and teaching, explains Rob Reynolds.

Read more about teaching languages with AI at hum.byu.edu/ai-language-learning-tools-byu

Meet Dr. Hashimoto—avid tennis player, corpus linguist, and man of the people.

Read more about Dr. Hashimoto’s work and research interests at ling.byu.edu/meet-dr-hashimoto

Linguistics faculty help train missionaries as basic English language teachers to enter Mongolia.

Read about how the Linguistics Department and the English Language Center is helping missionaries get visas to Mongolia at hum.byu.edu/mongolian-missionaries-linguistics

Learn about the various student journals in the College of Humanities and how you can join them! Read the full feature at hum.byu.edu/join-a-journal

The Linguistics Department student publications include Schwa, Leading Edge, Stowaway, and Latter-day Saint Insights! To find more information on our department’s student publications, visit ling.byu.edu/magazines-and-journals

Syntactician gone neurolinguist — Dr. Green is working to understand what the brain can teach us about how language works.

Read the article to learn more about Dr. Green at ling.byu.edu/meet-dr-green

Mentored research isn’t just for graduate students, and it doesn’t just happen in the College of Life Sciences. In fact, humanities undergraduates engage in mentored research every semester.

For the past three years, Associate Professors Grant Eckstein (Second Language Writing) and Jacob Rawlins (Editing and Publishing) along with several undergraduate and graduate researchers have done extensive research on a little-known aspect of the English language: reporting verbs. The project includes intensive research and a published paper, conference presentations, and valuable mentoring opportunities.

Read the full article at hum.byu.edu/eckstein-rawlins-academic-research

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.

Read the rest of the article about Dr. Stanley at ling.byu.edu/meet-dr-stanley

Swipe right to see the capstone courses offered this Spring and Summer term! Seniors: which one have you registered for?

Dr. Elzinga shared his experiences in local indigenous language documentation with the Tribe of Many Feathers club.

Read the full article at ling.byu.edu/dr-elzinga-gives-presentation-to-tribe-of-many-feathers

Congrats to Deven, who placed first in Linguistics, and Mishelle, who placed first in TESOL! They will both be moving on to the 3 Minute Thesis competition at the college level.

Meet our newest full-time faculty member! 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 and planning, editing, and discourse analysis here at the BYU Department of Linguistics.

Read more about her background and linguistic interests at ling.byu.edu/meet-the-departments-newest-full-time-faculty-member

Apply for the 2023 English Language in Britain study abroad! Visit England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland this summer while taking courses that count toward your major, minor, or General Education credits! We will be offering Introduction to Human Languages (LING 110), History of the English Language (ELING 324), Introduction to Varieties of English (ELING 468), and History of the Book (ELING 524). Visit kennedy.byu.edu/isp-program/english-language-in-britain to apply by December 15!

Join us tomorrow night for board games and ice cream in the Wilkinson Center!

It's that time again! 🎇🎆 SWIPE RIGHT for the special courses offered next semester, including Eye Tracking Research, Neural Tools for Linguistics, Sociolinguistic Field Methods, and more!

Join us at the BYU major fair on October 12 and learn about our programs in linguistics, applied English linguistics, and editing & publishing!