学生找老师问term paper的话题，说她看不懂语言学的xxx，但是唯一对方言dialect产生兴趣。因为她宿舍住了几个不同地方的人，问能不能换话题，教授最后：交个计划上来我看看再说吧。
P：I was looking over the course description and a lot of the stuff you described there, I just don't know what it is talking about, you know, or what it means.But there was one thing that really did jump out at me.
A:part about “dialect accommodation”— you know, the idea that people tend to adapt their speaking to make it closer to the speech of whomever they're talking to, and I'm thinking, yeah, I do that when I talk with my roommates, and without even thinking about it or anything, you know.
S：Okay, all right— “dialect accommodation” is a more manageable sort of topic…
Q1:学生去找教授干嘛？
A1：她想换topic，要教授同意
Q2：为什么学生对方言感兴趣？
A2: 因为她宿舍友都是来自不同地方的。
Q3:细节题：方言宿舍如何进行?
A3: without thinking 也就是下意识的。第二是很普遍的：common phenomenon
It is a largely subconscious process
. It is very common phenomenon
Q4:教授想让学生下一步做什么？
A4:交个proposal给他再说
Q5:重新题：but...you mean not relize that the scope
A5： 教授认为学生掌握不好这个
校园背景：
1. get started working on our term paper.
2. had a linguistics class before, so I was sort of... I mean, I was
3. sociolinguistics
4. section of dialect
5. you want some pointers where to go for information on the subject?
6.speaks some dialect of a language.
习惯用法：
look over查看
subconscious = without thinking = not fully aware.
there is one thing that jump out with me.
intrigue me 使我着迷
we don't really get into this till the end of the semester, you know. So I..
reading the chapter
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