“The science of language” struck eighteen-year-old me as an appealing contradiction.
I put down the course catalogue, un-undecided. In the following years, Linguistics offered a real good look at Language diversity. I needed that. But after studying capital-L Language, I still didn’t have two little-l languages to rub together. Spanish didn’t last long after high school. So here I am, a monolingual man, studying Intercultural Communication. Is that an appealing contradiction too? I have more ways of talking about Language than languages to do it in. Will I lose Linguistics like Spanish before? For now, the Science of Language still speaks to me, if I squint.
Dean Schmeltz
Dr. Nelson Flores
EDUC 546: Sociolinguistics in Education
17 April 2017
Trans-Linguistic Problem Set
1. Phonetics & Phonology
1.1. Static Palatography
1.2. Nasal Airflow
1.3. Optimality Theory Tableaux
1.4. Vowelspace Map
1.5. Spectrogram
