[hw] - voiceless alveolar approximate

In Phonetics today we were practicing and learning about [hw]

These two clips came up as an good illustration of hw.

Time is of the Essence

Funny Story, Im pretty sure that because I was about 20 min late to class on Tuesday 10/2, pretty sure I missed the announcement that there is no class today 10/4. I am here alone.
Because I was +/- 2o minutes late last class, made an effort to get here on time today.
Hahahahahaha so it goes.
PS I get my time skills from my Dad. We will come back to that one. Stay tuned.

The Art of Fermentation

This story would not have been inspired if it were not for my first SCOBY and Sourdough starter from, Robyn-SCOBY and Mike-SD Starter.  

First heard Sandor Ellix Katz interviewed on, yes, my favorite radio show, Fresh Air from WHYY. Listen to the story, do it.

Line up all the fermentation pets

Needless to say I got the the book The Art of Fermenation. 

Tonight I took out all my fermenting pets, Kombucha, Keifer, sourdough, sourdough proof for pie crust, sauerkraut. 

Fed them, bottled, and put back in the cupboards to do their fermenting thing. 

Sourdough starter and
Proofed Sourdough for pie crusts

Kefir, SCOBY hotel, Kombucha, and Sourdough starter all tucked in. Studying Phonetics between therefore, I ended up with some IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) Labels.  

old to new

old to new:suitcase to treasure chest

 found myself looking for a new way to display my jewelry 

found grandpa Bihler's suit case and transformed it into

a new treasure chest

Turning a dull assignment into my creative self

From Clouds to a Pot of Gold and ROY G BIV:  A Metaphor For the Relation Between Language Development and Literacy Development

School-age children need to have mastered the basic building blocks of language before they can slide on the rainbow to the pot of gold, which is mastering literacy skills. The basic building blocks of language are the clouds and rain. In clinical heuristic words, school-age children must be producing multi-word utterances, have acquired the fourteen grammatical morphemes, and have a semantic lexicon of 300-350 words expressively.  A typically developing child should reach these heuristics by the age of three. Continued language development will be the colors of the rainbow ROY G BIV* that children will follow to the pot of gold waiting for them. The shiny pot of gold is filled with literacy skills. The ROY colors of the rainbow include the development of skills to express passive verb voice, anaphora, negotiation and use conjunctions. Extended discourse give the rainbow the BIV colors. Children learn from narrative stories. Literature traditions help children develop the skills to follow a story with linear structure and oral traditions can help define cultural and moral values. Children will also continue to master literacy skills through expository discourse, this is the scientific, fact-based content of literature. The color Green with a capital G is the metalinguistics, metasyntax, and metapragmatics binds the ROY and BIV together, and continue to develop throughout school-age years and beyond.

*ROY G BIV= an acronym for remembering the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.