This explains why only enjoys a minor group of middle-aged Chiang users, and few young talkers adopt this variant.
As a consequence, high-level young talkers are drastically outnumbered by their mid- and low-level counterparts and might thus lose their critical impact on the language.
While it is difficult to draw strong inferences from a negative finding, the lack of observed perceptual adaptation in the children's group possibly suggests that auditory feedback may play a more limited role in the fine-tuning of perceptual representations of speech sounds in young talkers.
Curtis even had his own unofficial P.R. adviser in attendance — Gary Hill, a young fast-talker with hair reaching to his shoulders who had named his business Falco Ink, in homage to Curtis's press-agent character in "Sweet Smell of Success".
If this trend is left to itself without any intervention, young mid-level talkers might become the ones that are taking the lead in shaping the language, since unlike their low-level counterparts, they still use Min on a daily basis.
LeVon Stone is 23 years younger and a fast talker.
New Yorkers are great talkers.
"But New Yorkers are fast talkers.
It also routinely gets very funny when the two fast talkers are forced to contend with a company full of extremely young people who, whether they're earnestly overeager or bitterly snarky, are all wildly lacking in social skills.
The frequent usage of [G] found among middle-aged Chiang talkers in Ang 洪惟仁 (2003, 2012) was not observed among the young speakers in this study at all.
