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Research Projects
Professor Esposito and student researchers celebrate the end of a successful year of work.

Queer language project:

In an ongoing sociophonetics research project, student investigators have examined how gender identity, sexual orientation, and related factors impact speech. More than one hundred student participants have been recorded in the Linguistics Lab’s sound-attenuated booth. The project is focused mainly on vowel quality, pitch, and phonation in queer speech. The team is currently analyzing the data, with the goal of publishing a journal article and presenting at a conference in the near future.

Additional student/faculty research collaborations:

  • comparing initial consonant mutation behaviour in Welsh and Patagonian Welsh
  • analyzing the use of speech and song in Brazilian Tropicália music
  • investigating interactive linguistic landscapes in videogames
  • studying the sociophonetics of subversive femininities in anime
  • exploring the linguistic construction of waterscapes in manga