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Project Ideas for Linguistics Students

Study the science of language with interdisciplinary research rooted in theory, analysis, and real-world application.

🗣️ Introduction

Columbia University's Linguistics program equips students with tools to analyze language structure, variation, and evolution. These project topics span phonology, syntax, sociolinguistics, and computational linguistics—ideal for thesis work or collaborative research.

📚 Suggested Research Topics

Code-Switching Patterns in Bilingual Communities in NYC

Syntax and Word Order Variation in Endangered Languages

Sociolinguistic Analysis of Gendered Language in Media

Phonological Processes in Urban African American Vernacular English

The Impact of Language Contact on Grammatical Structure

Acquisition of Plural Morphemes in Early Childhood

Analyzing Emoji Use as a Form of Visual Language

Prosody and Emotion in Multilingual Speech Patterns

Language Death and Preservation Strategies in Indigenous Tribes

Machine Learning for Dialect Identification in English

Semantic Drift in Internet Slang Over Time

Comparative Study of Language Ideologies Across Cultures

The Role of Gesture in Second Language Acquisition

Corpus-Based Analysis of Political Rhetoric

Accent Perception and Discrimination in the Workplace

Automatic Speech Recognition Accuracy Across Dialects

Loanwords and Cultural Identity in Modern Japanese

Deaf Identity and the Structure of Sign Languages

Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution in NLP Systems

Language and Power: Discourse Analysis of Political Campaigns

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