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Pride and love

by | Oct 23, 2016 | 4 comments

This week, I participated in Nittanyville with 60 people in my organization (we had six tents). It was my first time doing Nittanyville, and it ended up being a memorable experience (just like everybody says). After staying over on Tuesday night and ending up cold and...

PSUxLING3

by | Oct 16, 2016 | 1 comment

This Friday, the Penn State Department of Hispanic Linguistics held its third annual Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition in Linguistics (PSUxLING). This exhibition is organized by the program in Hispanic Linguistics each year, with assistance from the rest of the...

Language and Math

by | Oct 9, 2016

Whenever I tell people that I am a CSD and Linguistics double major with a minor in math, they are consistently confused. Nobody understands why I would take math at all if it isn’t required for my major, let alone 400-level math. My answer is simple: I like math and...

Language and Culture

by | Oct 2, 2016 | 1 comment

Where is the line between blue and green? Is your understanding of the color blue the same as mine? These are familiar questions for anybody who has had a friendly argument over color perception sparked by aquamarine, turquoise, or teal. And what about the words “a...

What does expanding the Springfield family mean to you?

by | Sep 18, 2016

Back in April, my Family Relations co-chair for Springfield and I had what we originally considered to be a crazy idea. We discussed the idea very briefly when we first became chairs in March, but figured that it would never happen and let it go. A few weeks later...

Graduate? level courses

by | Sep 11, 2016

Last semester I signed up for LING 447 (Bilingualism). It is a course that is traditionally only taught in the Fall and has a small enrollment, but is a classic and very appreciated by the faculty in the Center for Language Science. I was excited to take the class...

To Mr. Flieder; From Mall Girl

by | Sep 3, 2016

In early August, I heard a rumor that my favorite high school teacher had retired this summer. That rumor was confirmed this week and currently all my high school classmates are having trouble imagining Hatboro-Horsham High School without Mr. Flieder. He said (many...

Last Week of Testing

by | Jul 15, 2016

My final week at Radboud was the week of June 27. It was a week full of wrapping up, goodbyes, and planning for my next adventure. After so many 9-hour days of testing participants, it was bittersweet to be going through the motions on my last day. On Wednesday I got...

CLS non-nativeness day

by | Jun 27, 2016

On Monday of this past week, the Center for Language Studies at Radboud University hosted a non-nativeness day where various language scientists gave short presentations about the work they are currently doing related to non-nativeness. Even though we are technically...