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Linguistics 400
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LIN 400

Looking toward the future in your linguistics major? Just interested to see what the capstone course is about?

As a linguistics major, your experience in the LIN 400 capstone course will involve putting everything you've learned into practice. You'll learn how to record data and use your own intuitions to begin to understand a language that is essentially exotic to you and your classmates. In order for this to happen, you will work with your informant, a native speaker in this exotic language. Here, you will meet some of the informants that have been used in past years. Some chose to share their experience with you.

  • Lillian Okumi - Luo

   "My name is Lillian Okumu. I was born and raised in Kenya (East Africa). I came to the U.S in 2005 and was a Masters degree student at SUNY Oswego when I agreed to be a Luo Language Consultant for the Linguistics class (Lin 400). Luo is my native language and is spoken by about 3 million people in Western Kenya. It is the language that I speak with my family and other members of the Luo ethnic group.  

 

    My experience as a language consultant was great. I got a chance to know some of the underlying rules in my language as the students analyzed the information that I gave them. I learned new things about my language and about the aspects that make each language unique. Working with the students was a special experience as each one of them had an interesting perspective."

 

  • Anshul -

 

  • Xuan - Vietnamese

 

  • Nouf - Sudanese Arabic