On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 01:12:20PM +1300, James Miller wrote: [...] > For a university project, I had to do a group assignment building a > psycholinguistic demo platform for a textbook. While it was more > focused on how the brain interprets language (very interesting in > itself), we spent a lot of time talking to a linguistics professor, > and he can produce the strangest sounds! I assume its because he's > studied how these sounds get made so well that he can make them > himself, despite not speaking the languages the sounds originate from. [...]
I know someone who is studying linguistics, and she told us that in one phonology class, they were taught how to make all kinds of strange sounds. I assume that must be part and parcel of being a linguist. :-) T -- It's amazing how careful choice of punctuation can leave you hanging:
