Harvard Gazette Interview
The Harvard Gazette, December 3, 1998
Lee Simmons
Put on your propeller hat and head to Harvard for the full Gazette interview...
Pop Tarts?
Standing at the blackboard with chalk in hand, the clean-cut, lanky Groat looks every inch the young academic. He clearly enjoys teaching and his enthusiasm is catching. Linguistics is a formidably abstract discipline, but Groat brings it to life with creative and often amusing examples. He illustrates the idea of "performance errors" with an anecdote of his own flustered spoonerism concerning some Pop Tarts belonging to a female acquaintance.