This week, we play-tested a fun and challenging linguistics card game. We also explored the the merger of two vowels before/l/ and created a (hopefully exhaustive) list of minimal pairs to incorporate into a new reading to see if speakers can produce or perceive a difference. The four members of our lab come from various […]
As a non-native San Diegan, I’ve had both the outsider and insider views of the city and its community. I grew up in a small cow town in Washington State, so to me community was all the kids I had been going to school with since kindergarten. It was knowing all the neighbors, cat-sitting for […]
I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve been asked, “Linguistics, huh? How many languages do you speak?”. There certainly was a time in my life when I wanted to be a polyglot; I wanted to learn every language I possibly could, starting with French or Spanish and moving to Russian, Gaelic, or Arabic. […]