The central part of my life right now seems to be train rides… Since the university where I study is 2,5-3 hours by train from here, and I go there at least twice a week, I spend 10 hours or more per week on the train. The key to successful studying on-board the train is [...]
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I really really tried to go to the seminar today. I did! But - listen to this - I got lost! The seminar was in another building, about 1km away, and I didn’t find it… I had looked at the map, but when I was on my way I saw some stairs going up to [...]
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…starting tomorrow. “Pragmatics” and “The History of Linguistics”. Unfortunately they overlap tomorrow: pragmatics from 1PM to 4PM and history of linguistics from 2PM to 4PM.
Before that I’m going to a seminar on “rehabilitating communicative ability in children and adolescents with acquired brain injury”. It’s a presentation of a PhD project by an SLP. It’ll be [...]
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On Thursday my first essay synopsis is due. The course is “Phonology and Morphology”, and right now I’m trying to figure out how to connect my research interest (production and perception of pauses) to the course.
One idea is to look at realizations of filled pauses in speech, i.e. allophones of filled pauses. I’m not sure [...]
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