Category Archives: Language

Pacific Voices, 2014 -2019

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Ed Battistella

Pacific Voices, 2014 -2019 Edwin Battistella, Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck Progress report [12/2020] Contents 1. Introduction 2 1.1 Challenges 2 1.2. Goals 3 1.3. Oregon and Washington 3 2. Pronunciation 5 2.1 The cot-caught Merger 5 2.2 Front vowels 7 2.3 Aaron … Continue reading →

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A Linguist’s Guide to Internet Fluency–A guest post by Levi Coren

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Ed Battistella

I don’t enjoy most social media, but I will admit to spending time on Tumblr, a social media platform with a penchant for encouraging tight-knit communities based around books, television shows, hobbies, and other special interests. My time on Tumblr … Continue reading →

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Sentence Diagramming, a guest post by Maggie Alvarez

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Ed Battistella

Maggie Alvarez recently completed her second-year studying English and Spanish at Southern Oregon University. Originally from Sacramento, California, she found a love for writing through a series of creative writing and stage performance classes at her high school. Those classes … Continue reading →

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A Historical and Cultural Examination of Central Yup’ik, a guest post by Gwendolyn Bogard

Posted on July 30, 2019 by Ed Battistella

Gwendolyn Bogard is member of the Honors College at SOU, where she studies Chemistry in preparation for a career in science communication. The village of Atmautluak sits in the middle of the Alaskan tundra about four hundred miles West of … Continue reading →

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The Syntax and History of the Appalachian English Dialect, a guest post by Cole Barnes

Posted on June 22, 2019 by Ed Battistella

Cole Barnes is 2019 graduate of Southern Oregon University, with an English major, as well as minors in Psychology and Rhetoric and Reason. He has been fortunate to call many places throughout Oregon home, including Ashland for at least a … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Abbigail N. Rosewood, author of If I Had Two Lives

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Ed Battistella

Abbigail N. Rosewood was born in Vietnam, where she lived until the age of twelve. In 2012, she was the recipient of the Michael Baughman Fiction Award and the Outstanding Graduating Student in Creative Writing Award from Southern Oregon University. … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Vince Clemente and Adam Cornelius on THE PALINDROMISTS

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Ed Battistella

Vince Clemente is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose first film, The World of Z, took the audience on a powerful four-year journey into the eccentric life of manic-depressive outsider artist known simply as Z. The film went on to win … Continue reading →

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Forensic Linguistics and Authorship Analysis, a guest post by Sierra Adams

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Ed Battistella

Sierra Adams is a senior at Southern Oregon University, where she studies English literature. Authorship analysis is a branch of forensic linguistics that can be used to solve court cases as well as identify authors like JK Rowling and (possibly) … Continue reading →

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Snow Speech: The Evolving and Combatting Dialects of Ski and Snowboard Culture, a guest post by Brian Wood

Posted on May 21, 2018 by Ed Battistella

Brian Wood is an English major and skiing addict studying at SOU. His two great loves are prose and powder. Anyone who has found themselves on a ski lift listening to their neighbor describe how they[1] “sent it off a … Continue reading →

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The Evolution and Importance of Angloromani, a guest post by Sarah Sissum

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Ed Battistella

Sarah Sissum is a member of the Honors College at Southern Oregon University, where she studies English and History. Angloromani is one of the numerous Para-Romani languages existing in traveler communities today. Characterized by its usage of Romani terms, the … Continue reading →

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