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Context—The Crux of Comprehension

October 15, 2025 09:00 AM
Graduate student Alyssa Crezee studied sentence processing with the hopes of contributing to one field that’s too often forgotten: autism research.
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Duane Dougal

Adjunct Faculty
Linguistics
dkdougal@byu.edu
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US Law Codes: Decoded

September 24, 2025 12:00 PM
US law codes, the official compilation of federal laws, are notorious for being complex. A recent study offers insights into why law codes are so difficult to understand—and why that may not be a good thing.
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What Your Danish Says About You

August 08, 2025 12:00 PM
Every language has accents, and they just might reveal more about you than you think.
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Language that Lifts

July 24, 2025 09:00 AM
Who makes language rules: Rulebooks or the people who use the language? When it comes to gendered language rules, people seem the likely culprit.
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Excel at Editing with TrackEDT

July 23, 2025 12:00 PM
A push for more research in the editing world led a group of professors and students to make TrackEDT: a tool that can change the entire editing field.
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The Radical Process of Learning Chinese

June 24, 2025 03:00 PM
Chinese is one of the most difficult languages to study, mainly because it uses thousands of characters. However, research shows that breaking characters into bite-sized pieces—known as radicals—may help.
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Eve Okura Koller

Assistant Professor
Linguistics
eve.koller@byu.edu
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Utah: The Ultimate Trendsetter

May 29, 2025 03:00 PM
NPR recently highlighted linguistics professor Dallin D. Oaks’s research on Utah name trends—something he believes is impacted by both politics and nature.
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Mindful Mistakes

April 25, 2025 12:00 PM
Mindfulness techniques have been shown to improve mental health, but they can do much more when used in the classroom.
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A Calamitous Misinterpretation

April 18, 2025 10:36 AM
Misconstruing the meaning of a word can have devastating results—as evidenced by what happened to Chris Rogers and his lost Fulbright Fellowship.
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Good Grief: The Language of Charlie Brown

April 03, 2025 12:00 PM
Seventy-five years after the Peanuts comic’s initial release, Charles Schulz’s daughter offers insight on the linguistics behind the characters’ humor.
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Rate My Rant

March 21, 2025 09:00 AM
Students from across campus joined together to share their passion for their studies through short rants on anything and everything linguistics.
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Ben McMurry

ELC Program Coordinator
Linguistics
ben_mcmurry@byu.edu
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Hey, Chat! How Do You Speak Chinese?

January 31, 2025 12:00 PM
Tutors can be expensive and hard to find. However, new research shows that AI may provide a suitable alternative to one-on-one tutoring—at half the cost.
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Language on the Brain

January 24, 2025 12:00 PM
Do Chinese speakers and English speakers process emotions the same way? According to one BYU grad, the answer might be no.
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Scars of Colonialism

January 23, 2025 03:00 PM
The 2024 Kennedy Center student research fellows unpacked the impacts of colonialism. Now, their findings can help bring peace around the world.
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Vietnamese Cantonese

December 06, 2024 03:00 PM
Cantonese may have originated in Canton, China, but to find its earliest form, you have to go to Vietnam—here’s why.
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