Showing posts with label linguistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linguistics. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Miss Muffet's Tuffet

I like this version of a classic nursery rhyme from a linguistics transcript:

*CHILD: a spider (.) sit on a tiger (.) eat Miss Muffet away .

Monday, October 19, 2009

Your brain is AMAZING!

Think about these two facts:
1. When someone is talking there are about 25 different speech sounds per second that you hear and unconsciously identify. That's fast.
2. Half of the words you hear in fluent conversation are unintelligible when presented in isolation.
And yet you can understand what someone's saying! That's incredible!