Linguistics Photos

For Halloween, linguistics students dressed as a linguistic concept.

Westy Litz as a syntactic treeWesty Litz as a syntactic tree.
Kevin Kline as a spoonerismKevin Kendall as Spoon-erisms.
Bilabial stopAmal Omer, Lydia Humphries and Shadieh Abed as a voiceless bilabial stop.
Phone-net-ticksConnie McGonigle as phone-net-ticks (phonetics).
UmlautVera Sincere is an umlaut.
StopKathleen Colduvell as a stop.
Matrix clawsTierney Plumb as "Matrix"-claws (matrix clause).
alphabet soupSarah Floyd is alphabet soup.
blendDella Hinn illustrates the blend of turtle+ladybug.
blendLaura Biondi metathesizes "hot dog" into a "dot hog".

morphological word

Rachel Nania, Tierney McAfee, Kelsey Clark, Amy Peterik, and Geoff Prin form a morphological tree of the word "dishonest".

Harry Potterisms

Meghan Monfett explains the etymologies of Harry Potter’s world.