Alex Jennings and Dr. Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Department of Linguistics and English Language Linguistic profiling1 has emerged as an area of research only within the last decade. Several researchers have shown that people who speak non-standard, ethnically-tied dialects are treated less favorably than their Standard American English (SAE)-speaking counterparts. However, no known studies have shown the […]
How Performative are Ideophones in Pastaza Quechua?
Roseanna Hopper and Dr. Janis Nuckolls, Department of Linguistics and English Language With my ORCA grant, I set out to investigate the performance qualities of ideophones, a category of words marked by a specific speaking style in Ecuadorean Pastaza Quechua. I planned to use software to determine phonetic properties of the words and compare to […]
Hope Rises in the Leprosy Colonies of India: Examining the Mission and Success of Rising Star Outreach
Kelsey Elayne Holloway Murdoch and Dr. Francesca Lawson, Department of Humanities I began my quest to graduate with University Honors during my freshman year at Brigham Young University. I was encouraged by friends, family, and professors, and I loved the challenge of the Honors Courses and the cultural exploration stimulated by the Great Works requirements. […]
Languages Without Borders: Creating an Enhanced Teacher’s Guide for Romanian 101
Sarah Holden and Dr. Michael Bush, Center for Language Studies Importance of the project Brigham Young University’s Romanian orphanage internship has been a popular and well-attended program since its inception, attracting mainly students majoring in childhood development, nursing, psychology, and health sciences. The volunteer work these interns perform during their semester abroad is of utmost […]
Dostoevsky and Design
Matisse Hales and Dr. Mark Purves, Department of Russian The purpose of our project was to create a special edition of BYU’s Germanic & Slavic Department journal, Perspectives, containing creative work by undergraduate students inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky and art are two subjects not frequently connected, and in our quest to relate the two, […]
Emerging Voices from the “Paper Cut” Country: Contemporary Salvadorian-American Poetry
Jonathan Garcia and Dr. Susan Howe, Department of English When we studied modern American poets in Dr. Howe’s Poetry 319 class, I wondered if there were also Salvadoran-American poets out there, as both my parents immigrated to the U.S. from El Salvador in the 1980s, fleeing a bloody civil war. At the same time I […]
The Video Essay: Introducing an Increasingly Relevant Sub-genre
Jacob Cutler and Dr. Patrick Madden, Department of English Teaming up with Inscape (BYU’s journal of literature and art) has proven to be fundamental for my ORCA project. In addition to publishing two of my video essays, Inscape has published my short essay explaining and introducing the concept of the video essay. I have included that essay below […]
Noun-Preposition Collocations: The 2010 Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) Compared to the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
Christina Champenois and Professor Doris Dant, Department of Linguistics and English Language Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines collocation as “a noticeable arrangement or conjoining of linguistic elements” (s.v. “collocation”). Collocational constructions may present difficulties to editors, translators, and second-language learners. Malgorzata Martyńska explains that collocations tend to be “one of the most problematic and error-generating area [sic] of vocabulary, especially for […]
The Impact of Different Learning Styles on Language Study and the Formation of Long Term Memory
Benjamin Black and Dr. Masakazu Watabe, Department of Humanities My Approach The purpose of my ORCA project has been to research different methods of language study and ultimately shed light on the method of study that will best engage the student in the target language, keep their motivation to study as high as possible and […]
Detection of Social Threat in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
Whitney Worsham and Dr. Michael Larson, Department of Psychology Introduction The purpose of this research project was to investigate underlying difficulties with social interaction in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Previous research has demonstrated that children with ASD are inhibited in processing social cues, including social threat (Krysko & Rutherford, 2009). We hypothesized that children with autism […]
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