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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I dimly remember stuff about X-bar syntax and Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar … it was a while back, now. Some of it stuck.

The phonetics, now, I remember a lot more of. Particularly the experimental phonetics unit I took in my third year. In fact, the sight of the interior of the nasal cavity during speech production may well haunt me to my grave …

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I’m late to the thread, I know, but…

I’m a linguist in training! First year of English and Linguistics specialist major–does that count?

(And man, linguists are the weirdest, strangest, quirkiest people in the world. I knew there was a reason I wanted to take that subject… :D)

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But of course. :slight_smile:

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I did a BA/MA in Cognitive Psych. at Boulder, with Linguistics as the secondary part of the undergraduate portion. It was tempting to try for a minor or double major, but I couldn’t fit the courses into my schedule. I really enjoyed the linguistic classes I took and try to keep up with linguistics, I need to start using my parents’ library access to read journal articles once more.

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[QUOTE=Shoshana]
You’re my hero.

[QUOTE]

Thanks! :cool:

I’m not even a linguist. I met a linguistics student at the party and was trying to impress her.

(If I’m not a linguist, why do I keep hanging out in this thread? I guess I must have a thing for them.)

PS–can I quote you on that?

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Yay!

And to qualify myself, the phonetic alphabet is Weird–writing a sentence in it looks like some demented form of l33t. :smiley:

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Another linguist, checking in. I’ve posted in a few of the linguistic threads before, though not in a while.

Aside from phrases like “X-Bar Theory”, “Governmental Binding”, and “anaphors”, I don’t remember too much of Syntax. Chomsky came up, but we didn’t read anything by him. I always preferred Phonology and Morphology, personally.

I took my linguistics degree and went into … investments … but my sincere congrtaulations on the grad school!

Alan Smithee has stolen most of my lines, but I’ll point out to Cicada2003 that fricatives are plosive. A sound that’s plosive means you’re breathing out to produce it – but everybody who belongs in this thread knew that, right? :wink: