
Email: shapirod91@gmail.com
Comps Title: Morphological Acquisition or: How I Learned to Stop Overregularizing and Love the “Brought”
Current Employment: Reference Archivist at Smithsonian Institution Archives
“One of the first things I learned in linguistics (besides how chinchillas are phonological experts) is that theoretical linguistics is really not that old. It’s younger than Mike Flynn, in fact! Studying linguistics taught me not to hesitate to throw things out the window and rebuild them. Metaphorically, of course.”