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Words Containing Us State Abbreviations, Darryl Francis

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A quest to find the smallest set of words that contain all 50 two letter abbreviations for US states and for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the US territories.

Words With Two Different Vowels, Susan Thorpe

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Sentences and 2-word phrases are made from words having the same 2 different vowels, in the same order.

A Puzzle To Honor Dr. Stephen Bloom, Jeremiah Farrell

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A Puzzle.

The Mathemagical Game Of Martin Gardner, Asif Hossain

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A game.

Sound Reversals, Susan Thorpe

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A word is divided into letter groups, the letter groups are then read in reverse order, and their sounds make another word.

Crosswords For Each Chapter In Annotated Alice, Ashley Post

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A series of crossword puzzles.

Instructions To Authors

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Instructions to authors for submitting articles to future issues of Word Ways.

Word Ways V.53 No.3 Complete Issue

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The complete issue in one file.

Bikowski Awarded Second U.S. State Department Grant For Online Course, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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State Department Awards Bikowski Certificate Of Appreciation For Online Education, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Linguocultural Features Of Zoomorphic Metaphors In Shavkat Rahman's Works, Gulrukh Yokubovna Sayidova

Scientific reports of Bukhara State University

In the article, zoomorphic metaphors in the poetry of the famous Uzbek poet Shavkat Rahmon are analyzed in linguistic, as well as linguocultural aspects, the zoomorphic metaphors used in poetry poems are classified by thematic groups, and zoomorphic metaphors such as dogs, birds, storks, ravens have been extensively studied on the basis of material.

Orthology As A Science About Literary Norm, Mekhrigiyo Shokirovna Shirinova

Scientific reports of Bukhara State University

The article gives an overview of the origin, meaning, application areas of theorthology on the basis of dictionaries and summarizes its interpretations given in the dictionaries. At a time when orthology is being studied as a separate discipline in world linguistics, the sources of Uzbek linguistics still do not include this concept in dictionaries, which indicates that there is a lot of research to be done before our linguistics.

Bikowski Chosen For State Department Virtual English Language Specialist Assignment, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Words Made From The Letters Of Alphabetically-Adjacent Letter Pairs, Susan Thorpe

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The search is on for words made exclusively from the letters in alphabetically-adjacent letter pairs.

Cross-Language Phonetic Interference In Learning The Arabic Language, Yulduz Ismailova

The Light of Islam

Structural changes in the system of higher education in our country require an increase in the role and improvement of the methodology of teaching students foreign languages. As we know, at one of the first stages in teaching Arabic pronunciation, students and teachers are faced with a phenomenon such as linguistic or interlanguage interference. As a result, some characteristic errors appear in the students ’speech, which impedes the formation of certain skills and abilities for the correct articulation of difficult-to-pronounce phonemes. The proposed article is devoted to the study of this phenomenon and the causes of its occurrence. Also, the …

Codicological Analysis Of Manuscripts Of “Mukaddamatu-L-Adab” Of Mahmud Zamakhshari In The Funds Of The World, Zohidjon Islamov

The Light of Islam

The scientific heritage of Mahmoud Zamahshari in the field of linguistics, lexicology, and literary studies consists of approximately 70 works. In the scientific heritage of the scientist, a special place is occupied by the work "Mukaddamata-l-adab." This work, recognized as the first multilingual dictionary, contains Arabic-Persian-Turkish trilingual, Arabic-Persian-Turkish-Mongolian four-language manuscripts. The work consists of five parts: the first part is devoted to nouns, the second part to the verb, and the words derived from it. Its third part consists of grammatical rules regarding auxiliary words, the fourth part - declension of nouns, and the fifth part - conjugations of verbs. …

The Language Of The Draughtsboard Sharks: A Conlang Project, Trent Garlin

English Department: Linguistics ENG 334

The language of the draughtsboard sharks is a fictional conlang. This paper describes the history, physical anatomy, means of articulation, morphology, syntax, and grammar of the language through the entirely fictional lens of a research team studying shark communication in New Zealand. Notable aspects of the conlang are its portrayal of imaginary, non-human speech organs created to eliminate a shark’s realistic inability to speak, as well as the absence of a written element to the language largely due to the lack of opposable thumbs (or fingers at all) on sharks. The language also includes IPA charts for both consonants and …

“I Don’T Love Language; I Love Children”: Students’ Knowledge, Attitudes, And Beliefs About Linguistics And Their Choice To Major In Speech-Language Pathology, Michelle Veyvoda, Amanda Howerton-Fox

Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning

Purpose: This pilot study explored the linguistic attitudes, knowledge, and beliefs of undergraduate majors in speech-language pathology (SLP) and the role an interest in linguistics played in their choice of the SLP major.

Method: Fifteen undergraduate students declared as SLP majors participated in this mixed-methods study. Participants responded to a survey and open-ended questions measuring their knowledge about and interest in linguistics; they also wrote a narrative essay describing their decision to major in SLP. Data was collected via Qualtrics. Descriptive statistics were done on the quantitative data, and thematic coding using NVivo 12.1.0 was done on qualitative …

From The Unspoken To The Verbalized: Different Ways Of Communication And Their Relationship To Culture In A Traditional Lakota Narrative "Ikto Na Wičhá Ha Kiŋ”, Or “Ikto And The Racoon Skin”, Liliana R. Boladz-Nekipelov

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This master’s thesis is a discourse analysis of a traditional Lakota story, " Iktó na wičhá ha kiŋ”, or “Ikto and the Racoon Skin”, one of the 64 stories included in the “Dakota Texts”, which were collected by Ella Deloria at three Lakota reservations in 1930s as a part of Franz Boas’ language documentation project. The thesis is also an attempt to examine different communicative strategies employed within the narrative and their relationship to culture, as well as the relationship between form and the transfer of meaning and culture and meaning. The analysis is conducted using Dell Hymes’ ethnographic approach …

Doing Away With Defaults: Motivation For A Gradient Parameter Space, Katherine Howitt

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In this thesis, I propose a reconceptualization of the traditional syntactic parameter space of the principles and parameters framework (Chomsky, 1981). In lieu of binary parameter settings, parameter values exist on a gradient plane where a learner’s knowledge of their language is encoded in their confidence that a particular parametric target value, and thus grammatical construction of an encountered sentence, is likely to be licensed by their target grammar. First, I discuss other learnability models in the classic parameter space which lack either psychological plausibility, theoretical consistency, or some combination of the two. Then, I argue for the Gradient Parameter …

Dialect Variation Assessment In Speech-Language Pathology, Maliah Wilkinson

Honors Theses

During speech and language assessment, speech language pathologists often utilize tools from sociolinguistics to differentiate between accent and dialect variation from actual speech or language impairments. Perceptual dialectology, is one of these tools. This method of research seeks to investigate the linguistic perspectives of various populations in specific situations (Montgomery, 2012, p. 638). To investigate the perspectives of college students, linguists, and speech-language pathologists surveys analyzed they perceptions of dialects in various settings and their backgrounds. Results from the surveys indicate linguists who participated have educational experience with dialects but not dialect assessments. While speech-language pathologists, have certification that insists …

A Perceptual Study: Discourse Variation In The Usage Of The Korean Informal Personal And Communal Possessives, Anlu Zhu

Honors Theses

The purpose of the current research was to identify possible variables that could affect native Korean population’s perception and use of the Korean informal personal possessive, 나(의)/내 [na (ui)/nae], and informal communal possessive, 우리(의) [u.ri (ui)]. While 우리(의) [u.ri (ui)] and 나(의)/내 [na (ui)/nae] are translated to English as “our” and “my/mine,” the actual definition of the words are not direct equivalents of those translations. Korean further allows the communal possessive, 우리(의) [u.ri (ui)], to be used in lieu of the personal possessive, 나(의)/내 [na (ui)/nae], depending on certain pragmatic situations. To investigate how native Korean speakers differentiate the usage …

Lee Joins Editorial Board For Applied Corpus Linguistics Journal, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Word Ways Ends!, Jeremiah Farrell

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Announcement about the future of Word Ways.

A Steve Bloom Puzzle, Jeremiah Farrell

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A puzzle used for the Alice in Wonderland class at Butler University, used now to honor Dr. Steve Bloom.

This Side Up, Don Hauptman

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A poem.

Losing Or Gaining A Letter Makes A Phrase, Susan Thorpe

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Lists of phrases made by losing or gaining a letter.

Afterwords, Steven Kahan

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An excerpt from Steven Kahan's puzzle book.

Visual Symmetry In Chinese Writing, Paul Jackson

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A listing of visually symmetrical Chinese logographs which are symmetrical along either the x-axis or the y-axis.

Caucus Race Puzzle Master, Sam Stucky

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An Alice in Wonderland puzzle.