The students authoring these blogs were each awarded a 2019 Linguistics Undergraduate Research Award (LURA 2019) for innovative work in a linguistics course at CU Boulder. Students in introductory as well as advanced courses were considered for the award. Nominated by babyÖ±²¥app, GPTIs, and TAs, award winners were asked to create a short blog about their research. This project was supported by the ASSETT Faculty Fellows Program.

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Game of Linguistics

How did the biggest franchise in TV use linguistics to create a new universe? By... Read more
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Vowel Quality in Bohemian Rhapsody: Freddie Mercury vs. Rami Malek

An actor charged with the job of believably capturing another person's idiolect is undertaking something... Read more
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Doing Me an Educate: An Overview of Meme Linguistics

Little scholarly research exists on the way language is used in memes, so we took... Read more
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Mother-Child Interaction: How Visual Access Affects Repair in Conversation

How do blind children learn to use language conversationally as it is used by sighted... Read more
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Oh and Uh and How Mine Changed

What happens to speakers with Indiana accents when they move to babyÖ±²¥app? By Timothy Meier... Read more
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Living Between Genders

So you talk like a girl, look like a girl, act like a girl. You're... Read more
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Gaydar—Sending Mixed Signals

Gaydar is a reified skill that confirms the existence of a gay speech community, but... Read more
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Patterns of Language Acquisition in Native Hindi Speakers

Children often pick up a language and learn different elements of grammar in a predictable... Read more
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How Migration has Evolved the Romani Language

The study of Roma migration is essential for understanding the grammatical and lexical structure of... Read more
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A Child's Acquisition of Polysemy: "of", "with", and "by" in Child English

How do children learn words without "seeing" them in the real world? By Megan Pielke... Read more
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An Inside Guide to Everyday Text Talk: The Evolution of 'LOL'

Since when did ‘LOL’ become so not funny? By Tansee Mcreynolds Course: Language, Gender, and... Read more
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Quantifier Scope Ambiguity in English and Turkish

Here's something you may not have realized about language. Sometimes a sentence can be ambiguous,... Read more
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Canadian Hick Masculinity

Well, pitter patter let's get at'er. By Kelton Jay Hevelone Course: Language, Gender, and Sexuality... Read more
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Should U Rly Be Txtng Ur S/O?

The language of texting may be taking romantic relationships into risky territory. By Anya Berlova... Read more
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Catcalling and Politeness Theory

¡Qué curvas y yo sin frenos! By Camila Soffia Course: Language in US Society (Ling... Read more
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Internet English and the Evolution of Grammar

Internet English is an emerging language system whose rapid development and complexity has implications for... Read more