Suggested topics for extra credit papers
- Bucknell Slang
- Borrowings in English
- Folk Etymology
- Onomastics (origins of place names and surnames)
- Language Acquisition
- Child Language
- Second Language Acquisition
- Speech Disturbances and Pathology
- The Great Vowel Shift
- American Sign Language
- Theories on the Origin of Language
- Field Work on a Specific Feature of Language (English -ly, who/whom, between you and I)
- Speech Errors: What They Tell Us about Language Processing
- Language Universals
- Animal Communication Systems
- The Relation of Sound and Meaning in Morphemes
- The Agreement System of Another Language (French, Japanese, Russian, German)
- How the Phonological System of Another Language Differs from English
- How the Verbal System of Another Language Differs from English
- The Relation of English to a Foreign Language You Study
