The Raleigh Language Project studies how language in North Carolina’s capital city has changed as Raleigh has grown from a small town into a thriving urban center. Linguistics faculty Robin Dodsworth and Jim Michnowicz, with the help of numerous energetic students, have gathered hundreds of interviews from lifelong Raleigh-ites, both young and old, English- and Spanish-speaking. Findings from the ongoing project have appeared in academic publications and in the popular press, and they contribute to our understanding of the relationship between language and urbanization.