Jost Gippert: Our Featured Linguist!

"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	Frances  Ingemann
Institution:	University of Kansas
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State and/or Country:	KS USA
Linguistic Field(s):	Language Documentation Phonetics
Subject Language(s):	Ipili
Language Family(ies):	Central and Western Main Section, Trans-New Guinea
Courses Taught:	Retired
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