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| What subfield are you associated with most? |
| Phonetics/Phonology |
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10% |
[ 7 ] |
| Morphology |
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3% |
[ 2 ] |
| Syntax |
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6% |
[ 4 ] |
| Semantics/Pragmatics |
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10% |
[ 7 ] |
| Socioling/Historical Ling/Dialectology |
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14% |
[ 9 ] |
| Neuro/Psycho-linguistics |
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9% |
[ 6 ] |
| Language Acquisition (L1 or L2) |
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6% |
[ 4 ] |
| Computational Linguistics |
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12% |
[ 8 ] |
| Other (please explain!) |
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26% |
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Seagull
Joined: 27 Jun 2006
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Location: I'm in your shop, stealing your Doritos
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 Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:29 pm Post subject: Linguists unite and geek out! |
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Not much to post about right now (surely you don't want to hear about my t****s...). But to follow tradition, here's a poll and a thread for linguists to geek out.
(Sorry about the condensed poll options... it wouldn't let me enter any more than that!) |
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ellie
Joined: 28 Jun 2006
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Location: ellieland
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject: Re: Linguists unite and geek out! |
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| Seagull wrote: | | surely you don't want to hear about my t****s... |
you never know seagull! we might want to hear about your research. |
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Seagull
Joined: 27 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:29 pm Post subject: Re: Linguists unite and geek out! |
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| ellie wrote: | | you never know seagull! we might want to hear about your research. |
I suppose it's really that I don't want to talk about it...  |
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ellie
Joined: 28 Jun 2006
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Location: ellieland
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:30 pm Post subject: Re: Linguists unite and geek out! |
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| Seagull wrote: | | I suppose it's really that I don't want to talk about it... |
now, that sounds entirely reasonable to me! |
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multipath
Joined: 19 Aug 2006
Posts: 2492
Location: Texas, USA
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lars
Joined: 12 Jul 2006
Posts: 27
Location: Wollongong AUS
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psycholiguistics and phonology
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dmscvan
Joined: 30 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:44 am Post subject: |
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A poll about linguistics! Seagull, you have warmed my heart!
I put down phonetics/phonology, but I suppose I really should've put other because I'd really describe myself as a field linguist more than anything, since I have to write about aspect... |
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Seagull
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| Well, I suppose I'm more of a field person than anything, since I do everything from phonetics to historical/socioling... but I just wrote a t****s using Minimalism, so I suppose I qualify as a syntactician... |
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potsuwa
Joined: 06 Jul 2006
Posts: 622
Location: nomad's land
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:37 am Post subject: |
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Woohoo! A whole thread for linguistics!
I"m afraid I had to choose 'other' because of the wording. If it were "what do I associate myself with, that's easy enough - phonetics and phonology. That's my favorite area, and it's what I'd like to ease back into as a career specialty. But I've had this crazy notion of trying to stretch my expertise as much as possible during my schooling, so I'm "known" (by the select few who know me ) for a bunch of stuff. I did my honor's thesis on first language acquisition (of consonant clusters); my MA on morphosyntax (the me lui constraint, for those who've heard of it). Now I'm doing a descriptive lingusitics PhD, writing a grammar of an Amazonian language. At least my language has some bizarre consonant clusters (or are) they clusters??) and is polysynthetic... It seems it will be good fodder for my interests for a long, long time. |
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Seagull
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:39 am Post subject: |
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| potsuwa wrote: | | I did my honor's thesis on first language acquisition (of consonant clusters); |
*gasp*
Consonant clusters! I love consonant clusters! I wrote one of my qualifying papers on coda clusters in Nuu-chah-nulth (onset clusters, strangely enough, are impossible, while in some dialects clusters of up to 7 consonants are permitted in coda position). |
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potsuwa
Joined: 06 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:55 am Post subject: |
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| Seagull wrote: | | potsuwa wrote: | | I did my honor's thesis on first language acquisition (of consonant clusters); |
*gasp*
Consonant clusters! I love consonant clusters! I wrote one of my qualifying papers on coda clusters in Nuu-chah-nulth (onset clusters, strangely enough, are impossible, while in some dialects clusters of up to 7 consonants are permitted in coda position). |
Really? Can I read it? Please please?
I really want to get back into the consonant cluster thing (how's that for a geeky first love?  ) I'm about to apply for a sshrc to look at the "clusters" in Yine - which seems to be Nuu-chah-nulth seen through a mirror darkly: no coda clusters, practically no coda consonants, but up to 3 Sonority-be-politedy-damned consonants in the onset. But are they real clusters? That's what I want to know. For all they love stacking consonants, they don't really like actually pronouncing them all at once. They prefer to just lazily glide from one consonant to the next, allowing transitions that verge dangerously close to vowelhood.
But hats off to you, and a humble bow. No one's really dealt with consonant clusters until they've worked on a language in your area! |
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Seagull
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| Dude, if you love consonant clusters, you must come work on a Northwest Coast language. |
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potsuwa
Joined: 06 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:59 am Post subject: |
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Don't I know it! Why do you think my sights are set on UBC? But I'd be sad to give up my wacky little Arawak language. It just goes about the cluster thing so oddly!
Seriously, though, I do want to work on consonant clusters for a postdoc and I'm in desperate need of catching up on the current issues in that area. Could I get a copy of your paper? Or even just your list of references? Dmscvan could send you my email address.
(*Note: you're forbidden to do anything effortful about this till you've got time to spare!) |
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dmscvan
Joined: 30 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:02 am Post subject: |
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I like consonant clusters too! I really do. Just because the languages I tend to work on have CV syllable structure...
I do love consonant clusters. And sonority issues. And weight stuff. Mostly word level prosody. |
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Seagull
Joined: 27 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:14 am Post subject: |
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| potsuwa wrote: | | (*Note: you're forbidden to do anything effortful about this till you've got time to spare!) |
*whimpers*
You and dmscvan (damn, now I want to pronounce her name with an initial [dmscv] cluster) should both move to Vancouver. You can crash at my apartment and we can write the SSHRC grant proposal to end all proposals and go hunt consonant clusters on the Northwest Coast. If we get the funding, I might even switch over to be a phonologist.  |
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