16.2635, Qs: English Phrase Recognition; Ordering of Names

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Subject: 16.2635, Qs: English Phrase Recognition; Ordering of Names

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1)
Date: 12-Sep-2005
From: Cate Dolan < catherine.dolan at yale.edu >
Subject: English Phrase Recognition 

2)
Date: 12-Sep-2005
From: Cate Dolan < catherine.dolan at yale.edu >
Subject: Ordering of Names 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:55:13
From: Cate Dolan < catherine.dolan at yale.edu >
Subject: English Phrase Recognition 
 


Hello. I am interested in conducting some research on phrase recognition,
and what portion of the language system seems to have the greatest effect
on a person's ability to decipher phrases. This arises from some
observation of people playing the board game Mad Gab, where the players
attempt to identify/pick out a common phrase from a "phrase" of unrelated
words that sound more or less like the common phrase (e.g. "eight weeds
hoot" sounds like "a tweed suit," or "ice mail ask hunk" sounds like "I
smell a skunk" or "ask rude arrive her" sounds like "a screwdriver"). I
would like to examine which linguistic factor most facilitates the
deciphering of the target phrase in this game, and am thus looking for some
good reading on how changing intonation, manner of articulation, etc.
affects a person's ability to process language. Does anyone have any
suggestions? 

Thank you! 

Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


	
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:55:15
From: Cate Dolan < catherine.dolan at yale.edu >
Subject: Ordering of Names 

	

I am pondering a question of a slightly trivial nature: Is there
a pattern in how people order the names of couples when referring to them,
and what are the reasons that drive this ordering (e.g. does a person refer
to a pair of his your friends as "Rick and Sally" or "Sally and Rick" and
is there a reason for this - does the one the speaker knows better come
first, does the man always come first, does the longer name come first, or
the one that ends in an alveolar?). Has anyone heard of any research being
done on this topic or any related topics?

Thank you! 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics
 



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