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Cornell Ph.D. Students Created an Alien Language for ‘Captain Marvel’

By Samantha Stern | April 10, 2019

Marvel fans may have noticed a brief scene in the recent hit film Captain Marvel featuring an alien language. The language, called Torfan, was created by two Cornell Ph.D candidates in the linguistics program, Ryan Hearn grad and Joseph Rhyne grad.

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Stanford Professor Analyzes Everyday Influence of Linguistics

By Alexis Oh | October 22, 2016

Jurafsky also examined people’s everyday interactions with police officers, tackling the question of whether officers treat white community members with a greater degree of respect than they treat black community members.