Majors

Elisabeth (Lisa) Aultman is a senior from The East Bay, California, where extremely-->'hella'/___Adj, and 'planning to'-->'trana' /___V. Her other major is Japanese, a language she has studied since age twelve. She has a(n embarrassing) love of puns, not to mention unusual and excessive use of punctuation. Her dream is to write a descriptive grammar of baby-talk, or possibly 1337, and to speak every language ever spoken fluently.

Joanna Clark is a senior from Chattanooga, Tennessee doubling in the Linguistics Cognitive track and Japanese. She's feverishly attempting to create an experimental paradigm to analyze the time course of aural cognition in both native and second languages. Otherwise, she enjoys using multiple dialects in the same conversation and writing phonological rules.

Charlie Brenner is a senior from Tucson, Arizona. He first became interested in linguistics because asking his high school Spanish teacher about the subject was a good way to avoid doing work in class, but sometime since then he's become legitimately fascinated by the subject. In addition to both tracks of the linguistics major, Charlie plans to complete minors in computer science and psychology.

Andy Charlton is a senior from New York City. He majored in african music and frisbee because they are the most fun things he knows. When he has time, he dabbles in linguistics because just taking multiple foreign languages as a major is neither allowed (nor particularly productive). He took a break to go to China in the fall of 08 to pursue his frisbee and african music passions, and because he loves dumplings. He plans to use his major to become an english teacher by day, lounge singer by night, and environmental advocate feared by polluting thugs throughout the world. Oh, and he revels in the wealth of humor provided by the local accent.

Alison Hoyer is a junior from Rochester, Minnesota. She has studied Spanish and German formally, but her true linguistic passion is Brazilian Portuguese, which she learned through immersion. At the moment, she is intrigued by historical linguistics and sociolinguistics, but also thoroughly enjoys writing random words in IPA rather than paying attention in other classes.

Robert Zamora is a junior from Phoenix, Arizona. He is a double-major in Hispanic Studies and Linguistics and has studied Spanish in Salamanca, Spain. He plans to study abroad in Spain during his junior year, and will focus the study of his majors on Hispanic linguistics. He is also taking French and plans to minor with the goal of becoming equally fluent as he is in Spanish and English.

Ruby Levine is a junior from Montpelier, Vermont. She can spend hours with an etymology dictionary and is frequently delighted by the literal translations of compound words. She plans to minor in Environmental Studies and Hispanic Studies.

Kaity Arctander is a junior from Sea Cliff, New York. She likes sounds and the patterns they form.

Minors

Evan Coles-Harris is a senior from South Pasadena, CA. Thus far, he has taken "Intro to Linguistics" and "Advertising & Propaganda". His favorite branches of linguistics at this point are phonetics and morphology. He will study abroad in China next year (fall '08 and spring '09), and plans on conducting some sort of linguistics experiment while there.

Tamara Cupara is a senior from Zagreb, Croatia. She is majoring in Hispanic Studies and minoring in Linguistics and Psychology. She loves the study of languages! Her interests are in the area of Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics, phonology in general, historical linguistics and dialectology.

Alumni

Emily Peterson '09 is from Bayfield, Wisconsin. She has studied Spanish and also knows a little bit of Ojibwe from elementary school. In addition to studying linguistics, she is also a music minor and plays the piano and organ. In her free time, Emily likes baking cakes and swimming in Lake Superior.

Stephanie Farmer '08 is from Phoenix, Arizona. She has studied Albanian in Tiranë, and helped put together an English-Khmer dictionary. She is currently working on her PhD at the University of California at Berkeley.

Courtney Rivers '08 is from western Oklahoma. She has studied French and Russian, but in terms of linguistics, is very interested in African languages, especially those of West Africa. She was also a Psychology minor and fearlessly became the first to follow the cognitive track now offered at Macalester. She also enjoys singing, listening, dancing to, and living a life of jazz.

Eric Weisser '08 is from St. Louis, Missouri. He has studied German and a little bit of Finnish, and has made a website about Ket, a Siberian language. Eric plans to minor in German Studies and Mathematics. He is particularly interested in endangered languages and sociolinguistics. He is currently working on his PhD at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Samantha Ross '07 is from Hillsdale, New Jersey, where they say "arnj" instead of "orange", and "Flahrida" instead of "Florida". She was a Hispanic Studies Major, and has studied Spanish, Portuguese, and some Catalan (figuring that once she linguistically conquers the Iberian Peninsula, the rest of the world will be hers soon enough!). Sam loves traveling, random bits of trivia, and bilabial fricatives.