User:John Pate

I'm a third year undergraduate at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, double-majoring in Linguistics and Philosophy along with a minor in Cultural Anthropology. I am interested in understanding human natural language acquisition and processing through statistical and information-theoretic approaches to processing very large corpora, with the ultimate goal of pursuing insight into consciousness and experience. I find all of linguistics fascinating, and have done work with a number of the faculty here at Ohio State. During the schoolyear, I am a research assistant to phonetician Cynthia Clopper, who has been working on cross-dialectal language perception. I am currently (Summer 2007) working as a research assistant to sociolinguist Don Winford on a project in African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Beginning in the Fall of 2007 I will be a research assistant in Laura Wagner's Developmental Language and Cognition Lab.