Like I said yesterday, the whole stress-timed-vs.-syllable-timed business is "a gigantic tangled intellectual thicket that’s easy to get into and hard to get out of". And one of the comments on my post asked a question that tempts me in further: So then there’s a psychological perception of syllable-timed language that is not visible in […]
Yesterday afternoon, I got this note from John Cowan, that indefatigable correspondent: You linked to the piece on Romney vs. Giuliani speaking styles today, so I checked back to see if you ever added my comment on it, but I think I probably sent it during the period when my mail to you was being […]
A few weeks ago, Seth Roberts visited Penn to give a talk about self-experimentation, and I took advantage of the opportunity to invite him to dinner with 15 or 20 students in Ware College House, where I'm Faculty Master. There was a lively discussion, mostly about Seth's "Shangri-La Diet" ideas. Seth turned the tables before […]
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