Makes me smile

The Sandbox General
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The perception of rhythm in language

by Anne Cutler, Cognition, 50 (1994) 79-81

The beginning of the paper:

  1. The segmentation problem

The orthography of English has a very simple basis for establishing where
words in written texts begin and end: both before and also after every word are
empty spaces and this demarcation surely helps the reader comprehend. In a
spoken text, however, as presented to a hearer, such explicit segmentation cues
are rarely to be found; little pauses after every single word might make things
clearer, but the input is continuous - a running stream of sound.

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Like most sports commentary. DO NOT PAUSE EVER!!

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Victor Borge figured that out a long time ago

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mobius pup?

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The dog pix is really messing with my eyes.

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I think I used to have that performance on VHS.

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My grandma did. I watched it there several times.

And PBS always seemed to play it during pledge drives.

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I think I put this in a different goA thread last year, but I don’t care.

I love this proof.

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GoA members that make me smile:
@meep
@Bro
@tommie.frazier (in spurts)

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i’m famous for my spurts

(piping hot out of context sigline here)

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who’s good with photoshop and can invert the black and white panels and then make a loop?

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what, no ferries? GTFO with that archaic infrastructure.