On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 07:14:30PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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> I've heared that in countries like China which have a tonal language,
> the percentage of people with "perfect pitch" is incre
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 01:12:20PM +1300, James Miller wrote:
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> 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
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> 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 interesti
"H. S. Teoh" wrote in message
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> The problem with learning by 'hearing' is that, past a certain age, you
> lose the sensitivity to certain sound distinctions that are not present
> in your mother tongue. I suppose it's a sort of ins
On 9 March 2012 12:45, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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>>>On 9 March 2012 01:23, Stewart Gordon wrote:
I'm findi
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 06:45:34PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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> > I have a little extra insight into this as my mom is a
> > speech/language pathologist:
> >
> > As you've noticed, trying to get a person to h
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>>On 9 March 2012 01:23, Stewart Gordon wrote:
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>>> I'm finding it hard to figure how someone would pronounce the "
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 01:55:45PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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> >Being British means that I do notice the differences in
> >pronunciation, I've pretty much done the opposite to Reagan, gon
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>On 9 March 2012 01:23, Stewart Gordon wrote:
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>> I'm finding it hard to figure how someone would pronounce the "o" and "u"
>> in
>> "colour" separately.
>>
I would imagine it'd be like "kuh-lore"
