Beginners Welsh Language Program

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Emily Stout and Dr. Ronald Dennis, Spanish and Portuguese The purpose of my project was to help create a website which could aid people in learning the Welsh language. Language resources for Welsh are difficult to find in most places, and generally restricted to a book and tape set. These sets have some positive effect, […]

An Approach to Automatic Spoken Language Identification Using Analogical Modeling

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Nicholas A. Stetich and Dr. Deryle Lonsdale, Linguistics and English Language Although it is often repeated, perhaps to the point of becoming cliché, we live in an age of information. Information is readily available, and in a variety of formats, especially electronic formats. Our ability to digitize data, or make it available for computer access, […]

Paraguayan Bilingualism: a Case Study of Phonological Adaptation

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Curtis W. Snyder and Dr. Willis Fails, Spanish and Portuguese With the Paraguayan constitution of 1992, Guaraní gained a particularly interesting status as it became recognized by the government as the “national” language of Paraguay with Spanish being the “official” language. Although not all people in Paraguay speak Guaraní, the overwhelming majority do. Figure one […]

Viennese Feuilleton During the Early 1920s: Description and Analysis of Bertha Pauli’s Biographical Sketches as Contributions to a Literary Genre1

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Ruth Kirsten Seppi and Dr. Robert McFarland, Germanic and Slavic Languages Detail I spent the summer of 2002 scrolling through microfilm, cataloguing everything written by women between 1921 and 1926 in the Neue Freie Presse, one of the most influential Viennese newspapers then. On the front page of the morning edition, a line divided the […]

The Saints of Southern India

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Shauntelle Rowberry-Pallett and Dr. Lance Larsen, English The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has had a presence in India for over 100 years. Yet, few people outside of India know anything about the members of the church in India. I first met the LDS church members in India in January of 1999. I […]

Building a Knowledge Base in Fijian

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Adam Rich and Dr. Michael Bush, Center for Language Studies The title, Building a knowledge base in Fijian, suggests a very lofty research project for one lone undergraduate student. Several scholars have studied Fijian since the arrival of Christianity to the islands in the mid-nineteenth century. Just seven years ago, the Missionary Training Center in […]

Teaching Through Comparison, A Study Manual Focusing on French, German, and Italian Language Acquisition

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Coogan S. Rencz and Dr. Mentor-Cynthia Hallen, Linguistics Informing ourselves through comparison is a natural process. We seldom make decisions without comparing a few options. We evaluate the quality of everything from artistic techniques, to computers, to pets based on comparisons. Through the humbling process of trial and error we learn from our mistakes. We […]

Sites of Memory: The Destruction of Public Buildings During the Paris Commune of 1871

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Julie C. Nay and Dr. Daryl Lee, French and Italian In March 1871, in response to the brutal Prussian siege of the city, a humiliating peace treaty with the Germans, and an attempt by the national government to deprive Paris of her cannons, the Central Committee of the National Guard declared Paris independent of the […]