{"id":1301,"date":"2018-06-27T19:41:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T00:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2026-08-02T19:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T00:37:19","slug":"what-i-learned-this-week-in-grad-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2018\/06\/27\/what-i-learned-this-week-in-grad-school\/","title":{"rendered":"What I learned this week in grad school . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some people learn boring things in grad school, and I guess I\u2019ve learned some, too, but here are a few fun things I\u2019ve learned this week:<\/p>\n

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  1. By the time a baby is 12-months-old, their babblings are different based on the language that they hear around them.<\/li>\n
  2. I learned about the McGurk Effect, where your eyes can trick your ears.\u00a0 Check out this 3-minute BBC video about it! https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. We also learned more about sound waves and the way that they are made in your throat and morph by going through your throat and mouth, much like the flames in this 3-minute youtube video we watched: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HpovwbPGEoo&list=PLD35730C757B37A5B&index=19<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    (On a random note, here\u2019s an example of another of the uniquenesses that are often found in my life.\u00a0 One of our example sentences in my Semantics class this afternoon was the following: \u201cThe children of Atuler village in Sichuan have for many years been climbing up a sheer 800 meter cliff on rattan ladders in order to attend school\u201d (Kroeger, \u201cAnalyzing Meaning\u201d).\u00a0 We were supposed to describe the coercion effects in the sentence, but instead one of the members of our 5-person group commented on how good the spicy chicken was in Sichuan, which, upon our questioning, we found out was in southwestern China.\u00a0 And yeah, that\u2019s not super uncommon, either.\u00a0 Don\u2019t I have a great life?)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Some people learn boring things in grad school, and I guess I\u2019ve learned some, too, but here are a few fun things I\u2019ve learned this week: By the time a baby is 12-months-old, their babblings are different based on the language that they hear around them. I learned about the McGurk Effect, where your eyes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[448],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-ethnos360","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}