J Psycholinguist Res (2009) 38:329 DOI 10.1007/s10936-009-9113-7 TRIBUTE
A Special Tribute to David A. Swinney, Ph.D Lewis P. Shapiro
Published online: 29 March 2009 © The Author(s) 2009. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
I met Dave in 1983 in NY; at the time I was a doctoral student with Edgar Zurif. In 1995 I had the opportunity to move to San Diego. There are many reasons to move, including hoping for a better scientific environment, making more money, trying to keep from getting stale, and then there are the personal reasons. One of those was because Dave lived in La Jolla. So, instead of discussing what Dave accomplished professionally and his remarkable influence on psycholinguistics and brain and language, I’m going to be selfish and take this short space to say what I miss: I miss comfortably playing off crazy theories; hearing Dave subtly tell me he’s already run that experiment; traveling to far-off places just because we wanted to; tasting Tequilas; my wife and I going to dinner and plays (musicals!) with him and Emmanuelle, and savoring foie gras, good wines, and great chocolate in their home; using that blowgun from his porch; our ‘coolest gadget’ competitions; and hearing him tell Dave Barry jokes. Food, wine, gadgets, theories and experiments; they come and go. What I really miss are our daily conversations. Those can’t be replaced. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
L. P. Shapiro (B) San Diego State University, San Diego, USA e-mail:
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