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Project Ideas for Linguistics Students

Investigate the structure, usage, and evolution of language across diverse social and cognitive contexts.

🔤 Introduction

The University of Chicago’s M.A. in Linguistics program encourages interdisciplinary approaches to the scientific study of language. These project topics allow students to explore grammar, sound, meaning, and language in society using both theoretical frameworks and empirical data analysis.

🧠 Suggested Project Topics

Syntax-Morphology Interface in Endangered Indigenous Languages

Phonological Variation and Language Identity in Multilingual Communities

Computational Modeling of Child Language Acquisition Patterns

Sociolinguistic Analysis of Code-Switching on Social Media Platforms

Intonation Patterns and Meaning in American English Questions

Historical Phonology: Sound Change in Indo-European Languages

Automatic Language Identification Using N-gram Models

The Semantics of Modality in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Sign Language Linguistics: Classifier Constructions and Spatial Reference

Language Contact and Creole Formation in Caribbean Societies

Perceptual Dialectology: Listener Attitudes Towards Regional Accents

Corpus Linguistics Study of Gender Representation in News Headlines

Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Language Revitalization Efforts

Pragmatic Markers in Academic Writing Across Cultures

Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Shifts in Contemporary Urban Dialects

The Role of Linguistic Ideologies in Bilingual Education Policy

Argument Structure Alternations in Heritage Speakers

Deep Learning Models for Parsing Complex Sentence Structures

Tonal Systems and Morphophonemic Alternations in African Languages

Cross-Linguistic Study of Word Order Flexibility and Information Structure

Language and Power in Political Discourse: A CDA Approach

Sociophonetic Variation Among LGBTQ+ Speech Communities

Language Loss in Diaspora Communities: Documentation and Archiving

Neurolinguistic Research on Bilingual Sentence Processing

Metaphor Usage in Legal vs. Medical Professional Registers

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