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Open Thesis Topics: MUSIC GOES LANGUAGE - The influence of the music song industry on the language education culture. How do foreign language songs (music with lyrics) impact on the attitudes towards and the willingness to learn certain foreign languages? The popular music roots of phonaesthetic language learning. AI LANGUAGES - investigating the aesthetics of languages produced by text-to-speech programs or artificially created voice(s) DE-BIASING THE POLYGLOT WEIRD BIAS (from Weird to NORM) replicating the latin lover effect with monolinguals or low L2 proficiency levels PHONAESTHETICS GOES INTERNATIONAL enriching our language portfolio with more language families (also non European languages) Interested in one of these topics? Do you have your own phonaesthetics-related ideas? WRITE US: lukas.nemestothy@univie.ac.at susanne.reiterer@univie.ac.at