Group 4 Language Blog

Hi. My name is Michele. Like many others in this class this is my first time blogging. Had a few difficulties at first, but that should all be taken care of and the site should now be ready to go for the rest of the members in my group.

To start off, I am a junior majoring in Neuro/Psych. I am from Buffalo, NY and am a really big Sabres and Bills fan. I have been to both France and Germany, and though I am no expert in an other language, let alone english, I find language to be a very fascinating topic. I took this course to learn more about the ways in which we learn to communicate, and hopefully some of the neuronal processes involved. I look forward to reading the views of others and am also anxious to see how this blogging thing goes.

Hello All. I am Kate Walsh, and like Michelle, this is also my first time blogging. To tell you a little bit about myself, I am a junior and am double majoring in Studio Art and Psychology. I am from Rochester, NY and I have traveled around the United States some with my family. I have also traveled to Estonia with my grandparents to learn about my heritage. During these trips, and also being here at Allegheny, I have become interested in the way people speak. This includes myself, as I have been told numerous times that I have a nasal accent. I love listening to people's accents and their choice of words. I look forward to learning more about this throughout the semester.

Hello my name is Pete Obourn and I am also from the great state of New York. It seems that we have our own little New York posse forming here. Like Kate I am from outside of Rochester. And, like Michele I am a huge Sabres and Bills fan. So our group seems to have a lot in common. To be perfectly honest, I am taking this class because I need to fulfill my minor requirement. However, I did choose this class over the rest of the upper level psych classes because it looked very interesting. There is something about language and communication that is very intriguing to me; and based on what I have heard and read from others in the class this seems to be a mutual feeling. I am a first timer at this so I do not know how it will go, but I hope that by blogging we can all learn from each other by sharing out opinions and questions about language. So Sabres!

Heeeyyy my name is Amy Graham and I'm a junior Psych major from Greensburg (about 40 minutes outside of Pittsburgh). I guess I'm going to have to go against the group because I'm a HUGE Penguins hockey fan. I'm taking this class because I've started looking into possibly pursuing Audiology/Speech Therapy in the future because of my interest in language. I've never blogged before but now that I know how to do it I have high hopes that this will work out well! I deleted the email about my username & password (oops!) so I'm going to have to post under your name Michele, sorry!

Hey guys, my name is Andrea Testa, and like most of the rest of the group, I am also from New York. I'm from Buffalo, so I am obviously a HUGE Sabres and Bills fan. I'm a junior psych major and like Amy, I'm taking this class because I plan on pursuing Speech Therapy in grad school. Sorry it took me so long to put up an entry on here, but it's my first time ever blogging so I was having some trouble with it. Anyways, I can't wait for the rest of this class! :)