The 2018 Five Minute Linguist was sponsored by the Department of Linguistics, University of Utah. For the Five Minute Linguist main page, click here.

The Five Minute Linguist 2018

Winner: Michelle McSweeney (Columbia University), "Can I Get a Comma?"

Runners up: Kelly Wright (University of Michigan) & Kevin E. McGowan (University of Kentucky), "Covert Segregation: Investigating Dialect Discrimination in the Housing Market​"; Zachary Jaggers (University of Oregon), "A Political Ideology with an Accent"