Welcome to my blog. I have been wanting to start a blog for a long time, primarily to supplement my classroom teaching. In the past few years, I have developed a habit of writing long, rambling E-mails to my students after lectures. These function as a sort-of 'debriefing' about the lecture, and often elaborate at length on points made in lecture. Crucially, I think that these musings are often worth archiving, and ought to be available to people outside of my courses.
The upshot: I finally started a blog, and this is the inaugural entry.
This blog will be specific to my research and classroom teaching. Don't expect to see long discussions of topics that are not directly related to work. For example, I will spare you the details of my new cat, Carrie, as interesting as they may be. I hope that you will be a regular visitor to my blog. To those of you who have stumbled on this blog who don't know me, you can expect me to be talking about topics related to speech and language development and disorders in children, and to socially conditioned variation in speech production and speech perception in adults and children.
Cheers,
Ben