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Joe Kessler Ph.D student, University at Buffalo Linguistics |
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About Me From an early age, I have been fascinated with language and how we interact with one another through it. I am a puzzle-solver at heart, and I love exploring the unique and elegant strategies that we as language-speakers employ to get our points across. I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics from the College of William and Mary, where I graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with high honors in 2010. My honors thesis, entitled "Michael Tomasello on Language Development: The Puzzle of Human Linguistic Uniqueness," was written under the guidance of Dr. Talbot J. Taylor, with a supporting committee of Dr. Ann Reed of Linguistics and Dr. Barbara King of Anthropology. A copy of the final version of the thesis can be accessed online here. Since 2010, I have been pursuing graduate study at the University at Buffalo, where I am a Presidential Fellow and Ph.D student in the Department of Linguistics. As a linguist, I study the morphology of language, which deals with the smallest meaningful parts of the words we speak. I am also keenly interested in descriptive language documentation and field work, and in furthering the revitalization of languages with few remaining speakers. In my spare time, I write the blog Language Hippie, where I advocate for increased tolerance and celebration of linguistic diversity. |
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