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 […]
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 […]
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