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Thesising: The First 2 Months

Most (if not all) of the people reading this already know that I'm in the throws of writing my Master's thesis. What you probably don't know is what in the world my project is about, and what I'm actually doing with the 5-or-so months I have to finish up the most important paper of my life to date. Let's start off with the topic. It wasn't until early February that it had been finalized, so my apologies to anyone who asked over the holidays what it was about! Basically, my project can be boiled down to trying to answer a small part of the question what do bilingual-to-be infants pay attention to when learning their languages?  Since that's a huge question, and I only have 20 weeks, it needed to be narrowed down just a tad. I'm sure everyone is familiar with the jokes that stem from Japanese-speakers pronouncing r's and l's incorrectly. It turns out that when they were infants, they could tell these two sounds apart, but because the differ...
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Crash Course in Linguistics

Innocent, well-meaning, new acquaintance: So what do you study? Me: Linguistics Them: Oh! How many languages do you speak? Me: *mentally picturing lasers darting out of my eyes* This conversation is well-known to virtually everyone who has ever studied the misunderstood topic of linguistics. To be fair, it's not a very popular one, so I don't expect people to know all of its intricacies. But I'd prefer it if people asked questions about it instead of assuming. To put it another way: asking a linguist how many languages they speak is like asking someone majoring in journalism which newspaper they study, or asking a doctor how many diseases they have. A bit odd, no? My goal is to make the conversation at the beginning of this post just as odd.  So - what is linguistics??? In the shortest definition, linguistics is the study of language. Note how that's singular. Linguists can  study a particular language or group of languages, but more often than not, ...
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Playing Catch Up

The past couple months has been a weird mix of doing a lot, doing nothing, traveling, and staying home. So what exactly has been going on? Mostly thesising. I can't tell you how many times I've read through the same 60 or so pages, trying to find every way possible to make it even a bit better (hello, perfectionism), and I'm still not done!  Granted, I have to finish in the next few days, and there was a slight delay due to my supervisor deciding a vacation in Greece was more important than a random master's student's thesis. It's been such a long process, and I am so ready to be done with it. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed parts of it, but it's really been the only thing I've been focusing on for over 5 months, and it's time to occupy my thoughts with something else... A while back I wrote a short description of what my project was, and I bet you're all dying to know what the results are, right? Well, basically, I found that monol...
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