We drew four different isogloss maps because we found out that boys, girls, men and women had different ideas about what to say when they played this game.Īnd last of all, the men’s isogloss looked like this:Īt first we thought it was a little strange that the isoglosses didn’t match up very well, but then Billy O. Olson helped us draw isogloss lines to show what we found. The towns we went to were: Lake Valley, Big Lake, Pine Lake, River Bend Lake, Two Lakes, Mountain Lake, Prairie Plain Lake, Lake of the Trees, and Bemidji. We wanted to know about everybody so we asked men, women and children. So this summer, when most of us go to spend a week or two at our grandmothers’ houses, we each took along a questionnaire and interviewed five or six neighbors, preferably farmers. Olson told us that you were most likely to find an isogloss in the country, not in the city. So our research question was: Where exactly do people say “grey duck” and where exactly do they say “goose,” at least in Minnesota where we can find out? Methodology Olson, said we could study isoglosses to learn about that, so we decided to do that for this year’s science fair. We thought this was strange, even for the South, but then we talked about it and discovered that even some Minnesota kids in our own class had heard this at their grandmas’ houses. Tyler was from Illinois or some other southern state, and she told us that down there kids play “duck, duck, goose,” instead of “duck, duck, grey duck” like we do here in Minnesota. Mapping variation in a children’s game in Minnesota Fifth Grade Science Fair Project Speculative Grammarian Youth Research Focus is proud to bring you the finest language- related research by the world’s school- aged youth.
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