26.1632, Featured Linguist: Eric Campbell

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Subject: 26.1632, Featured Linguist: Eric Campbell

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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:42:07
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured Linguist: Eric Campbell

 
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Eric Campbell

My journey to becoming a linguist was a circuitous one, taking me first
through music, into engineering, then back to music, and finally landing in
linguistics. I suppose it began when I was nine years old and I got my first
(toy) drum kit for Christmas. I really took to playing the drums, and two
years later I got my first real drum set. In high school in Dearborn, Michigan
(U.S.), I enjoyed most subjects, but math and science were the ones that came
most naturally for me. So, not knowing what else to do, I applied to and then
enrolled in the nearby College of Engineering at the University of Michigan.
In the meantime, a few friends and I had formed a band, and we began writing
music and playing live shows in Detroit and Chicago, inspired by the
blissed-out shoegazer rock coming out of England at the time. (...)

Read more: 
http://blog.linguistlist.org/?p=2110

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