Speech Science: Tongue Twisters and Valley Girls
14:32 minutes
Drawing from research presented at this year’s Acoustical Society of America conference, psycholinguist Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel untangles tongue twisters to look at speech planning patterns, and professor Amalia Arvaniti discusses the “Valley Girl” dialect.
Segment Guests
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel is a psycholinguist at the Speech Communication Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Amalia Arvaniti
Amalia Arventi is a linguistics professor at the University of Kent in Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom.
Meet the Producer
About Alexa Lim
@AlexaLim22Alexa Lim was a senior producer for Science Friday. Her favorite stories involve space, sound, and strange animal discoveries.