Capstone Projects

Last year, Linguistics majors explored a wide rage of fascinating topics…

• Understanding made-up languages in video games
• Multilingualism in Augmentative and Alternative Communication
• Translation of Star Wars into Ojibwe
• Sound symbolism of English bilabial plosives
• Muchange Muchidzidza: Auxiliary verbs in Shona
• Prototype theory in Toki Pona
• The British accent as spoken by Americans: A phonetic analysis
• The phonetics of musical genre
• Making theory interactive: Developing a software tool for teaching phonology
• Pronoun or noun? Children’s use of referring expressions in naturalistic speech
• You sound different: Assessing second dialect acquisition of Western American English speakers at Macalester College
• Code-switching and identity in global hip-hop
• Cross-linguistic influence on language learning
• Linguistic landscape at the Minneapolis Institute of Art