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Phonologist

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  1. I'm going to Hopkins. I turned down Stanford after being accepted off of their wait list. It was an extremely difficult decision. Job placement won out in the end - Hopkins phonologists have been taking up fantastic positions. Let's hope it works for me too!
  2. I just realized that if I go to Hopkins I'll never have to deal with this question again, assuming no one asks a cognitive scientist how many languages they speak.
  3. Well, the two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. I consider myself a generative phonologist, but my approach is very functional. My personal view is that a very minimal or "soft" UG guides the emergence and self-organization of sound patterns, but on the other hand, I tend to focus on the UG aspect exclusively. I don't know what I am.
  4. I'm in the middle of my year off and I don't have any health insurance. It's an option, I guess. Also, would you really get insurance just by taking classes at a state school? Everywhere I know of doesn't provide health benefits unless you're a degree-seeking student.
  5. How weird - it's like the advertising terms have been spliced into a legitimate text, although not very coherently.
  6. Haha, thanks Dinali. If I do take myself off the wait list, it'll be with you in mind. I'm really hoping something works out for you!
  7. I'm the one who posted the last JHU acceptance, for whoever was asking on the results page. I got a call from my would-be-advisor yesterday. It feels really good to have a legitimate acceptance (finally), and I'd be thrilled to go, but I'm holding out to see what happens with my various wait lists before I think about a decision.
  8. The two programs I'm wait listed at don't admit anyone unless they can guarantee five years of funding. I think it'll hurt a little less if things don't work out, knowing that I was never actually admitted. To be accepted somewhere and not be able to go must sting pretty bad.
  9. Yes - just found out I've been put on the "alternate list" at Stanford. UGH. I've got nothing solid at this point.
  10. He actually called me before the visit, as did Legendre. I think they both want to talk to everyone. It was nice meeting you BTW. How was the "party?"
  11. Ugh, I'm really bummed about MIT. Just this week I had a professor emailing me who wanted to see more of my work, etc. I thought that kind of interest would at least get me a spot on the wait list, but I've heard nothing. At least I'm done now, aside from my interviews. This whole grad school thing has turned out to be kind of a bust - I didn't get in at either of my top choices, and I don't even have anything definitive from my second-tier choices. These two interviews are going to be very stressful.
  12. I heard mid-March, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they didn't finish until 2012.
  13. Phonologist

    Baltimore, MD

    I'm always glad to hear good impressions of Baltimore. I'm interviewing at Hopkins on Tuesday. Come hang out in the linguistics forum! We have fun and games.
  14. Is this really what you'd call computational linguistics? I'm very interested in learnability/statistical learning, but I wouldn't consider myself anywhere close to a computational linguist.
  15. I wouldn't have said that had you included that information in your first post. Chill out.
  16. Baltimore is like any other city: it has nice parts and bad parts. The bad parts are bad and the nice parts are nice. Hampden, North Charles, Fell's Point, Canton, and Federal Hill are all very nice areas in the city of Baltimore - quaint, tree-lines streets, nice living options, shopping, bars/pubs, yuppies, etc. It's a lovely city. It's unbelievable how ignorant people can be of these things. When I tell people in San Francisco that I live in Oakland, which is directly across the bay, I still get weird looks and people ask me why on earth I would want to live there. They live right next to the city and don't know what an objectively nice place it really is. So I guess my advice is to take what people say with a grain of salt, unless they're personally familiar with the area or have lived there. Case in point: the one person in this thread with significant first-hand experience with Baltimore had good things to say.
  17. I'd say all of your GRE scores are fine. Mine are considerably lower than anything that's been posted here; I just barely broke 1200. Granted, only two of the schools I applied to wanted them, but I have interviews at both of them. They are top programs. So I guess the good thing is that it's not as much of a numbers game as you might think. My GPA isn't very good either.
  18. Wow, that's considerably later than usual. I thought I was done for since I hadn't heard by now, but now I have kind of a renewed anxiousness. Congrats on all the acceptances by the way - you're doing very well.
  19. Who keeps posting about "theoretical linguistics" on the results page? Sounds like someone's got a case of physics envy.
  20. Feisty, are you planning on having a car if you were to live in Oakland? Your friend's email was very thorough, though it left out a couple of my favorite neighborhoods here in the Town. The problem is, they're pretty much off-limits unless you have a car. If you're interested I can tell you more.
  21. Yeah, and it's going to be at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2011. Berkeley does have a great program though; it's just pretty eclectic and laid back. Most Berkeley professors would never be too involved in any of the "hot debates," so it's hard for the department to get much recognition. Lakoff might be a different story, but Lakoff is Lakoff (ew).
  22. Wow, I sat here and tried to come up with a ranking of the top 5 programs for phonology, but it's hard because they're all doing such different things. Instead I'll rank programs according to my interests, which center on phonetic explanation in phonology from a synchronic, UG-based perspective: 1. MIT 2. UCLA 3. Stanford 4. Johns Hopkins (cog sci) 5. UNC Chapel Hill Even that was hard. Only a few years ago UCLA would have been a clear #1, but the critical mass has since dispersed making the other programs much more competitive. The ex-UCLA crowd at MIT as been particularly successful in the field recently, enough that for me they're #1.
  23. Here's the National Research Council's 1995 ranking. The new report is supposed to be out any day now, but they've pushed it back so many times that no one really knows when we'll actually see it. http://consusrankings.com/1995/08/13/na ... rams-1995/ But I actually think that all of the top 10 isn't really the "top" since linguistics is such a small field. I'd say the NRC's top 5 are the best programs, and 6-10 are second tier (and the second tier might include schools beyond number 10).
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