{"id":902,"date":"2009-09-14T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=902"},"modified":"2009-09-14T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T15:09:11","slug":"meet-ling-09-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2009\/09\/14\/meet-ling-09-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Ling-09, Pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two more incoming first-year students who have sent us brief introductions this week.<\/p>\n<p><B>Jorie Koster-Moeller<\/B> is from Corrales, New Mexico.  She got her BA  from Pomona College, and is<br clear='none'\/>\ncurrently doing a joint program through the linguistics department and the brain<br clear='none'\/>\nand cognitive science department.  She&#8217;s particularly interested in semantics,<br clear='none'\/>\nboth formal and experimental, and psycholinguistics.  She also enjoys most<br clear='none'\/>\nanything mountain-related, such as backpacking and rockclimbing.<\/p>\n<p><B>Edwin Martin Howard<\/B> apologises that you&#8217;ve had to wait a whole week to hear about him, but he was out of email contact last weekend whilst enjoying a break in the wilds of rural Quebec - the Canadian province that he now also, in addition to his native Scotland, calls home. During his time in Montreal, he has become a proficient French speaker, and he completed a BA in Linguistics at McGill, writing an honours thesis on the semantics of superlatives and NPI licensing. The best thing that&#8217;s ever happened to him was the birth of his son, just over a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two more incoming first-year students who have sent us brief introductions this week. Jorie Koster-Moeller is from Corrales, New Mexico. She got her BA from Pomona College, and is currently doing a joint program through the linguistics department and the brain and cognitive science department. She&#8217;s particularly interested in semantics, both formal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}