28.1146, Featured Linguist: Richard Sproat

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1146. Tue Mar 07 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1146, Featured Linguist: Richard Sproat

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Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 10:26:07
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured Linguist: Richard Sproat

 
Dear subscribers,

Our next Featured Linguist is Richard Sproat! You can read the story of how he
became a linguist on our blog or on our Fund Drive page (where you can even
leave a little donation if you so please!)

http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/

Here is a little preview:

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I remember well the day I decided to major in Linguistics. 

When I started at the University of California at San Diego, I was a biology
major: I wanted to be a mycologist. What changed my plans was a two-credit
chemistry lab course where, basically, I could never get the experiments to
work. One experiment was about measuring an impurity in a sample of iron
filings, and the first stage involved dissolving the filings in acid. Mine
would not dissolve. It was then and there that I realized that my chances of
success in laboratory science were slim, and I decided to switch my
linguistics minor to a major.

[...]

Read more:
http://blog.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/featured-linguist-richard-sproat/







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