[RNLD] Australian tongue twisters

Piers Kelly Piers.Kelly at anu.edu.au
Mon Jun 22 03:43:18 UTC 2015


These are precious!
Would anyone object if I compiled them as a post on the ELAC blog? :
http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Adam Schembri <A.Schembri at latrobe.edu.au>
wrote:

> Very cool finger-twister, Jenny: they’re called ‘finger fumblers’ in
> American Sign Language. Here’s one:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAe5ojKXTCc
> I don’t know any examples in Auslan or BSL, however, so I’ve been inspired
> to find out now. As a non-native signer, I have lots of experience of
> producing slips of the hand, using involving metathesis of handshape or
> location in a two sign sequence. These usually evoke lots of laughter from
> my addressees.
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> Assoc. Prof. Adam Schembri, PhD https://latrobe.academia.edu/AdamSchembri
> Department of Languages & Linguistics  | La Trobe University | Melbourne
> (Bundoora) | Victoria |  3086 |  Australia |Tel : +61 3 9479 2887 |
> Twitter: @AdamCSchembri
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> On 21/06/2015 08:27, "Jenny Green" <jenny.green at iinet.net.au> wrote:
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> >Hi all
> >Back in the old days of teaching Arrernte courses at IAD we made up
> >nonsense sentences like this palatal rich one:
> >
> >Intelyapelyape yepeyepe-kenhe lyepelyepele anepaneme
> >
> >‘The butterfly is sitting on the sheep’s intestines’
> >
> >Now we have moved to another modality! See the finger-twister below
> >(thanks Eileen Campbell and Margaret Carew)
> >
> >https://vimeo.com/127221803
> >
> >Cheers
> >Jenny
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