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I find myself most interested in phonology and semantics. This school year I will have finished the requirements for the undergraduate major at NYU, and I am looking for ways to expand on what I have already learned. NYU offers advanced phonology at the undergraduate level, but only introductory semantics. I am currently finishing the Introduction to Semantics course, and would like to spend time this summer learning as much as I can in order to better prepare myself to take NYU's beginning graduate semantics course this fall.
I first became interested in linguistics while I was teaching myself to speak Polish when I was fourteen. The process of being able to observe myself internally as I learned to speak ever-better fascinated me; I have been "hooked" on generative linguistics ever since. I find especially attractive the idea that linguistics, when viewed as the study of an innate language faculty, has its place in the greater cognitive sciences, unearthing attributes of the intangible but crucial human mind. I am now intent upon attending graduate school in linguistics, and pursuing a career in linguistic research.
I am hopeful that I can attend EGG this year in particular because of its location in Poznan. I have traveled to Poland every summer for the past six years, and so I would feel comfortable as a woman traveling alone in a country, culture, and language that I am familiar with. |