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| Subject: | Tongue Twisters |
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I was wondering if there is any information about tongue twisters: if specific phonemes cause confusion, if only certain phonemes can be interchanged, etc. I need information from credible sources. Thank you for your time and help! |
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To quote David Stampe on Linguist List (http://linguistlist.org/issues/2/2-227.html#1): <dl> <dd>"The state of the art paper [on tongue twisters] is still Larry Schourup's <dd>'Unique New York Unique New York Unique New York', in <i>Papers from the Ninth Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society</i> (CLS 9) 1973. C. Corum et al eds, pp.587-596. <dd>complete with typological sampler (even the Hare Krishna mantra!), bibliography, and a prosodic/phonological theory of tongue twisters almost general enough to predict the torque implicit in <b>any</b> utterance." </dl> Larry's paper was also mentioned in Arnold Zwicky's Blog: http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/tongue-twisters/ |
| Reply From: | John M. Lawler click here to access email |
| Date: | 26-Nov-2012 |
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