Journal of Undergraduate Research

Kimberly Merkley and Dr. Cindy Brewer, Department of German and Slavic Languages Along with my mentor, Cindy Brewer, my goal for my ORCA project was to research and write an introduction to a 30 page book, titled Die Schwarze Johanna, by a female German missionary in Namibia in the early 20th century. The text, as […]

Kelley Manning and Dr. Laura Smith, Department of German and Slavic Languages “Simply phonetics. The science of speech. Thats my profession: also my hobby. Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby!” –Professor Henry Higgins (pg. 8)1 My favorite subject to study is linguistics, particularly phonetics and how people produce certain […]

Hyuna Kim and Dr. Laura Smith, Department of German and Slavic Languages Numerous articles have examined the difficulties Korean speakers have learning the English /l/ and /r/ sounds (e.g., Borden et al 1983; Smith, 2001; Han, 2002). Most Korean learners of English hear and produce no distinction between English /l/ and /r/, because no surface […]

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, […]