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Peter

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About Me

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My Interests

Language

My interest in language is the basis for my profession as a linguist. I'm generallyinterested in how a person's knowledge of language is a product of both nurture (youlearn the language you hear growing up) and nature (EVERYONE learnslanguage). More specifically, I'm interested in the first things that a child saysand what that has to say about what we learn and what we're born knowing.

Speech and sound

I like studying sound. I'm more interested in studying the sounds of speech than other sounds, e.g., music, but, like most musicians, I have a general interest in acoustics.

Spirituality

My interest in spirituality is the result of growing up in a Christian home. I believe my parents raised me well, and I couldn't have helped but to reflect on what they consider such an important part of life. Recently, however, I have given up my faith as a Christian. See my blog if you want to know why.

Sports

I am currently active in one sport: climbing .

If you're interested in any of these things, send me an email!



I'd like to meet:

Pornographers, people looking to make money off of me, thieves, and perverts (I'm really 12 years old and VERY naïve!)

Music:

Purpletraitor , Winfield , DJ Deeko , Symfonik Plague , & Paula B In addition to being fine musicians, the people above are also personal freinds

Most of the time I listen to music without words. It suits a schedule dominated by studying. I love listening to music on Soma FM . Check them out!

Movies:

Here's some of the more recent movies I've seen:

    No Country for Old Men - This was a great movie. Anton Chigurh is really, really scary! The Golden Compass - Not a great movie, but it was cute. Notes on a Scandal - Watch this and see if you don't feel at least a little bit of sympathy for Cate Blanchett's character. I'll bet you do...

What have YOU been watching???



Television:

I love The Simpsons , Firefly and recently finished Basilisk . Anime tragedy? Who knew?



Books:

This summer I finished Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Harry Potter 1, and Mansfield Park. Currently, I'm reading a book on doing statistics with SAS and Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion.



Heroes:

I love photography, and here are some of my favorite photographers: Andy . This shot was taken in the Gallup High School parking lot, probably 10 years ago.

Julie Siddiqi

Julie took this picture when we visited the Elgin winery. A fun trip, but I like the Callaghan Winery better.

Last but not least is my Dad. He's been shooting landscapes and flowers for years, but I only started becoming interested in his pictures after I left for college. At any rate, the picture below comes from a trip he, my Mom, and I made to Macchu Picchu in 2000.

You can click on the picture to see a larger version of it.

My Blog

The Dissertation

Well, folks, I am now officially knee deep in dissertation. I've discovered three important things:    I should defend in the spring to be able to get a postdoc for the fall  ...
Posted by Peter on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:18:00 PST

Reply to Erins Latest Blog

MySpace is being stupid and it won't let me respond to Erin's latest blog. So, I'm posting my response on my own blog:To follow up on Scott's comments related to Deep Space Homer:Ladies and gentlemen,...
Posted by Peter on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:04:00 PST

Airport Delays

Erin and I are at the Denver Airport. Delayed because our plan was late to arrive and we missed our connecting flight. Over 4 hours of sitting around, with 2 hours left to go.Rather than sit and mope,...
Posted by Peter on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:08:00 PST

New Blog Soon

    I'm afraid this is just a teaser. I'm preparing a blog with lots of pictures of bare skin. It's gonna be hot! Or maybe not hot...:Peter
Posted by Peter on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:06:00 PST

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Aside from the obvious pleasures of food and football, I really like seeing my family. Usually, I go to Seattle for a family reunion with my mom's extended family....
Posted by Peter on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:16:00 PST

Moving Forward

I was in West Lafayette, Indiana this past weekend.  I went to visit a professor named Lisa Goffman who works in Purdue's Speech, Language, and Hearing Department.  Lisa and I are working o...
Posted by Peter on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:54:00 PST

Correction to Previous Blog

I'm writing because I've done enough research to know that there is very likely a questionable claim, if not an outright error, in my last post. To say that I'm surprised that Mother Teresa's charact...
Posted by Peter on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:03:00 PST

So Tired

When I was in college, like so many other college students, I'd often stay up until 2 or 3am on a regular basis. To finish homework, study for a test, or just make up for a day spent goofing off. It...
Posted by Peter on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:19:00 PST

Its lonely out here

Apparently I'm not getting any traffic on my site these days...Oh well...Here's some of the latest news:1. I'm working on my dissertation.  The plan is to finish in the spring.2. I went to a loca...
Posted by Peter on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:45:00 PST

Cancer

Here's something you might not know about me: I have cancer. To be fair, this is not the kind of cancer that is causing me horrible pain or that requires chemotherapy: my cancer has not metastasized....
Posted by Peter on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:46:00 PST