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Game of Linguistics

April 18, 2019

How did the biggest franchise in TV use linguistics to create a new universe? By Lauren Nelsen Course: Morphology and Syntax (Ling 4420) Advisor: Jared Desjardins LURA 2019 Game of Thrones , a hugely successful TV show, has firmly established its presence in popular culture. But it’s not just a...

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Vowel Quality in Bohemian Rhapsody: Freddie Mercury vs. Rami Malek

April 19, 2019

An actor charged with the job of believably capturing another person's idiolect is undertaking something enormous. But when that person has a legacy like Freddie Mercury's, the task may seem almost unsurmountable. By Sophia Six Course: Language Sound Structures (Ling 3100) Advisor: Prof. Rebecca Scarborough LURA 2019 In this research...

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Doing Me an Educate: An Overview of Meme Linguistics

April 19, 2019

Little scholarly research exists on the way language is used in memes, so we took matters into our own hands. By Carolyn Olmsted and Cameron Sojak Course: Morphology and Syntax (Ling 4420) Advisor: Jared Desjardins LURA 2019 For this paper that we researched for our Morphology and Syntax class, we...