Matthijs wrote:
I agree with this sentiment. I think that while support for Western
workers against Western capital, including their unions, is necessary,
we shouldn't conveniently lose sight of the fact that
CB 1:
There's a strange phenomenon right now where all these babies are
into to saying Obama, sort of on their own when they hear it.
Are you sure the Teletubbies haven't endorsed Barack Obama?
CB 2But why is shhh non-arbitrarily connected to quiet ?
There is onemotapia , as well noted ,
Sorry for all the typos in the last mail, but it's past midnight and
my eyes are too tired to read it in detail enough to correct. If
something is totally messed up, quote it and I'll try to clarify
tomorrow.
Meanwhile, to explain the voice-onset-timing thing, as with [p] vs. [b],
here is an
http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~lholt/publications/PhonemeIllusion.pdf
Good paper. Very well thought out and reasoned--unlike most work in
the field where the reality and validity of a concept is assumed to be
true in order to 'prove' or at least support the position that the
concept is real and valid.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=jtsfidRq2twfeature=related
What you see and hear, what you hear, and what you see are THREE
different things. The McGurk Effect.
But also note that it can not be done with a single sound. It takes a
syllable. Which means perhaps the syllable--as we say it, as we
CeJ
http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~lholt/publications/PhonemeIllusion.pdf
Good paper. Very well thought out and reasoned--unlike most work in
the field where the reality and validity of a concept is assumed to be
true in order to 'prove' or at least support the position that the
concept is real and
The Illusion of the Phoneme
Andrew J. Lotto
Loyola University Chicago
Lori L. Holt
Carnegie Mellon University
0. Caveat
A caveat is warranted here. While our title is provocative, our ambitions are
much more prosaic. Obviously the debate on the ontological status of the
phoneme has a long and
Dobson accuses Obama of 'distorting' Bible
Conservative is critical of Dem's stance on how the Bible should guide policy
Dobson questions Obama's stance on Bible
June 24: Evangelical leader James Dobson accuses Barack Obama of distorting the
Bible. Journalists Brian Debose and Perry Bacon
Barry O is a big puzzle ( smile). Some people just can't figure him out. He's a
mystery.
CB
^
Barack Obama: What's the big idea?
16 months and 26 debates later he remains a puzzle to many voters
Malcolm Gladwell: Who says big ideas are rare?
The Talk of the Town
By
CB: I agree with your overall points. However, the main revolution that
the whole world needs is in the US. Since, the US is the imperialist center
of this epoch, a revolution here would give significant relief to the workers
in the Third World. The only ones who can make a revolution
CB: That's interesting. Could you give some examples of words imitating
non-sounds ?
In English, the /g/ of gooey, gunky, greasy, gross, goop, glob, glop
etc. seems to indicate that the /g/ sound is used to represent
something in common, so we could argue a shift away from purely
arbitrary.
CB:CB: So most linguists think the phoneme is a valid concept ?
Most work in linguistics has become so specific and narrow that if a
linguist in lexical semantics says that the phoneme is a valid
concept, it is most likely because he or she hasn't read a paper in
phonology since their
If the sound and visuals are too much out of synch, it doesn't work.
Perhaps something that is done in a highly controlled environment does
not translate too well to the still primitive av of the internet. I
saw it demonstrated on a large screen TV on a television program here
in Japan, and it did
I clearly got the effect--even on a tiny sub-note with a tinny
speaker--watching a recording of that very same Japanese TV program.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Fke7GWcT5kofeature=related
The illusion was I perceived da da da da
When I closed my eyes, I could hear ba ba ba
And the visual was
CJ Say the words 'low' and 'row' in isolation. Although the overall
gestural routine is somewhat
similar, notice how both start with prominent lip rounding. Yet the
English /l/ is often characterized as a 'lip flat' sound/phoneme. So
if you are rounding your lips before you start phonating [l ou
A couple more things to ponder before I head off to classes.
The idea of the phoneme is sometimes built on the house of cards that
is categorical perception (though minimal pairs and complementary
distribution have also been tried, as have featural matrices). Yet
categorical perception is not
I had thought Chomsky had moved past featural matrices as phonological
units, but I could see where they might still appeal--they retain some
phonetic criteria and are easily formalized (he attacked phonemes from
the issue of how structuralists had used complementary distribution to
delimit what
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