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Voices from LSA 2012
At January’s LSA meeting, we invited visitors to our office hours to record vlogs (an adorable portmanteau of video + blog, for those new to the term) describing what they like about LINGUIST List. Several folks were kind enough to … Continue reading
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Linguist of the Day: Jean Berko Gleason!
Here at LL Headquarters, there are a lot of wugs to be seen. Homemade wug clocks. Wug magnets. Wug mugs (say it ten times fast). Even a couple of wug tattoos. The adorable little mascot of language acquisition studies is … Continue reading
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Linguist of the Day: Mamoru Saito!
We are pleased to announce that Mamoru Saito is our newest Linguist of the Day! Dr. Saito is renowned for his work with syntactic theory, comparative syntax, and the structure of Japanese; however, he wasn’t always a prominent syntactician. Visit … Continue reading
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A Letter from LINGUIST Tech Hero Erica Wicks
Dear Subscribers, I came to The LINGUIST List as a bright-eyed classicist straight out of undergrad. With an arsenal of Latin conjugations and Greek declensions and a fascination for language, I aimed to infiltrate the world of linguistics in graduate school. Well, my … Continue reading
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LINGUIST of the Day: Nikolaus Himmelmann!
We’re proud to announce that our second 2012 Linguist of the Day is Nikolaus Himmelmann! Dr. Himmelmann is renowned for his work in language documentation, typology, Austronesian and Papuan languages, and more; his story begins: Before getting to university, I … Continue reading
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A letter from Student Editor Amy Brunett on her rewarding experiences at LINGUIST
Dear LINGUIST List Subscribers, LINGUIST List keeps you on your feet. It has been three years since I started working here now, and each year I have something new to tell you, some new adventure to share with you. The … Continue reading
And Now a Word from Justin Petro, Bard Extraordinaire
Dear Fellow Linguists, My name is Justin Petro; I’m a student in the MA program for Linguistics at Eastern Michigan University, I work at LINGUIST List, and if that last statement wasn’t true, the one before it wouldn’t be either. … Continue reading
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2012′s First LINGUIST of the Day: François Grosjean!
Each year during Fund Drive, LINGUIST List has the honor of bringing you the autobiographical accounts of how some of the field’s top scholars came to be linguists. Every week, we’ll bring you a new tale of a linguist’s sagacity, … Continue reading
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A Chance to Get Involved
Limbo. The space between graduating undergrad and being accepted into a graduate school. During the time up until my acceptance, I didn’t know what part of the country I would be in. Whether I would be on the west coast, … Continue reading
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Interning at Linguist List: An intern’s perspective
Thinking about applying for the LINGUIST internship? When I was approaching my final year of undergraduate studies, I started thinking about my future in linguistics and the path I wanted to take. Years earlier, as a high school student, I … Continue reading
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