[EDLING:2393] Katz embraces dynamic approach to convey richness of languages

[Francis M. Hult]

News at Princeton

Katz embraces dynamic approach to convey richness of languages

Associate Professor of Classics Joshua Katz likes to start the first day of 
class in "Origins and Nature of English Vocabulary" with what he calls 
his "party trick."

"I ask students to stand up and say a few words, and then I tell them where 
they're from," said Katz, who is an expert in historical and comparative 
linguistics. He follows up by revealing one or two of his secrets to deriving 
hometowns from people's speech. "The students are amazed that it's possible to 
get all that information from how a person speaks."

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