However, the mechanism that does underlie children's strong tendency to fuse components of speech signals is not discernible from these two experiments.
Last week I talked in class about his tendency to pull apart figures of speech, but perhaps another way Shakespeare creates the impression of thinking through language is when his characters create logical paradoxes through the manipulation of words, even stringing several of them together, as above.
The primary hypothesis addressed was that children's strong tendency to fuse spectral components of speech signals might be based on a strategy of perceptual organization in which components are fused when they are recognized as emanating from a single speaker.
This structure mitigates the tendency of normally accented English speech to fall into the rhythm of iambic pentameter.
"The tendency in Russia is toward limiting freedom of speech and freedom to gather, targeting any group that somehow stands up for its rights," said Yury Gavrikov, the head of Equality, one of several gay rights groups in St Petersburg.
We sometimes see people scoff at the tendency of the American public to confuse freedom of speech and First Amendment, such as in this Huffington Post article, which explained how people misunderstand First Amendment rights.
Originally, as I started this book project, my focus was on what I call "unlearning liberty": that is, the frightening tendency of students to learn from omnipresent speech codes (71% of public campuses have laughably unconstitutional codes) and the bad examples of administrators that censorship is not only an acceptable option, but actually something that good people do.
The researchers focused on the tendency of people in conversation to alter their pitch, volume, pace and other characteristics of speech to emulate one another.
But anyone who cherishes freedom of speech can have no quarrel with the Bread and Puppet Theater's tendency toward black and white depiction of issues that seem increasingly blanketed in shades of gray.
