Language Museum
Linguistic Studies Spring Event
May 6, 2008
9:00 am - 3pm
BC 144
Students in the English Language and Linguistics class will present their special Language Museum projects in public exhibits on May 6th from 9AM to 3:00 PM in Buntrock 144. Topics run the gamut of language studies, including English - French cognates, language birth, death and maintenance, naming traditions at St. Olaf, how puns work (or don't), speech pathology, how sports announcers work in pairs, and irreversible binomials (like spick and span).
Bobby Anderson: Play-By-Play Linguistics
Graham Book: History of English
Laura Botz: English Only?
Vanessa Brown: Complexity of Political Speeches
Heidi Cambell: Minnesota and St. Olaf First Names
Brittany Gilje & Liz Whitt: French and English Cognates for
Language Learners
Katie Hellen: "You are what you speak:" Perceptual Dialectology
Jonathan Hernández: Theories of Language Acquisition
Emily Holm: Evolution of [dj] 'hard <j> in English
Lindsay Kruger: The Sounds of Puns
Eric Larson: American Sign Language
Danielle Lovaas: Order in Irreversible Binomials
José Martínez: Spain: From Oppression to Language
Diversity
Rachel Ose: The Apostrophe
Jenny Peterson: How Gender Affects Language
Bryan Runck: Code Switching: An Overview
Amy Sack: Speech and Autism
Diana Westley: Language Death
Rachael Wolanski: Foreign Accent Syndrome in Stroke Victims
Kate Woodstrup: St. Olaf Slang
