Yesterday's class was the most frustrating yet ( Read more... )

( Word formation )

Notes from yesterday's lecture ( Read more... )

Click here to find out what clitics are! (I know you're all dying to know!)

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( What if an L is voiced in a forest and no native speakers hear it..? )

Second class last night, and it was just entirely enjoyable and pleasant. The subject is interesting, the professor is easy-going (though I haven't seen how he grades yet, so I might be wrong!), and my classmates have an actual interest and stake in the subject matter. This is so completely different from being an undergrad, where everyone was ( Read more... )

Look, another non-surgery post ( Read more... )

From my linguistics text, chapter 3:

"Complimentary Distribution means that the two sounds [voiced and unvoiced l] never occur in the same place (like Clark Kent and Superman)."

*giggle* By day, disguised as mild-mannered Unvoiced L...but when linguists are threatened...Super Voiced L!

Notes from Chapter 2The weird formatting is bc I used RoboHelp to create an actual interactive help project. Yeah, I'm a geek. Time RH was good for something. The actual plan is to use it as a test project to try importing into other RH competitors' apps, like Flare and AuthorIT, but so far I haven't had a lot of luck with it. So it's staying ( Read more... )