Robots to replace Linguistic Anthropologists

[Liz Ronkin]

Dear List Folk,

I have a Linganth student who wants to research and write on Obama's 'More
Perfect Union' speech, i.e. his March 2008 speech on race.
She has two questions for the list.  Can anyone suggest:

(1) studies and/or work on this speech, in particular, that address the
construction of the text to prevent sound biting? [The students has heard
that this speech was constructed to present ideas too long to be
bited/bitten ... and has found a piece by Jonathan Alter in Newsweek
suggesting that venues like YouTube changed the rules.]

(2) studies and/or work on other Obama speeches that address (some of) these
issues, and would be of interest to a budding linguistic anthropologist?

Many thanks!
Maggie Ronkin