Mangled Easter Eggs - quote ???

[Lise Menn]

importantly, most phoneticians now strongly disagree with this  
metaphor, because although the information about each sound is spread  
out before and after the place where the hearer thinks it 'is', that  
spreading is orderly, not random; it contributes to our understanding  
by giving us time to integrate the information.
	Lise Menn

On Sep 26, 2006, at 1:29 AM, Caroline Bowen wrote:

> "TRIVIA: Old Question: Who compared speech to raw Easter eggs being  
> smashed
> between the rollers of a wringer? What point was he trying to make?  
> Answer:
> C. F. Hockett, A Manual of Phonology (p. 210):
>
> Imagine a row of Easter eggs carried along a moving belt; the eggs  
> are of
> various sizes, and variously colored, but not boiled. At a certain  
> point,
> the belt carries the row of eggs between the two rollers of a  
> wringer, which
> quite effectively smash them and rub them more or less into each  
> other. The
> flow of eggs before the wringer represents the series of impulses  
> from the
> phoneme source; the mess that emerges from the wringer represents  
> the output
> of the speech transmitter. At a subsequent point, we have an  
> inspector whose
> task it is to examine the passing mess and decide, on the basis of  
> broken
> and unbroken yolks, the variously spread-out albumen, and the  
> variously
> colored bits of shell, the nature of the flow of eggs which previously
> arrived at the wringer... The inspector represents the hearer."
> http://www.linguistics.ku.edu/news/archive/KULD041498.shtml
>
> Hockett, CF (1955). A Manual of Phonology. Baltimore: Waverly Press.
>
> Enjoy your presentation!
> Caroline
>
> Caroline Bowen PhD
> Speech Language Pathologist
> 9 Hillcrest Road
> Wentworth Falls NSW 2782
> Australia
> e: cbowen at ihug.com.au
> i: http://speech-language-therapy.com/
> t: 61 2 4757 1136
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of sues at xtra.co.nz
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 September 2006 3:40 PM
> To: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org
> Subject: Mangled Easter Eggs - quote ???
>
> 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
>
>
>

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