Mangled Easter Eggs - quote ???

[sues at xtra.co.nz]

Dear all 
 
I wonder if anyone can help out in a moment of (small) crisis: 
 
I am looking for a quote about English prosody being akin to a row of brightly 
coloured Easter Eggs coming along on a conveyor belt until they go through a 
washer/mangler - the author likens the resulting mess of squished up silver 
paper and chocolate eggs and yolks to disentangling the English speech stream. 
 
I found it magnificent and used the image as title for a paper I'm giving this 
weekend!! But I haven't been able to find the source as I am not at home at the 
moment. 
 
I think it was in James Morgan's [ed] "Signal to Syntax: Bootstrapping into ..." from 
Brown University but when I google Mangled Easter Eggs or similar I can't get 
anything. 
 
Deeply grateful for any kind help! 
 
Sue Sullivan 
Christchurch 
New Zealand