
68: Lazy in a Good Way (with Mark Ellison)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
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What Is the Impact of a Sequence of Nine Digits Without Any Repeats?
Pitch accents are used in many languages to mark something out as being, this is a little bit, something you should pay a bit more attention to. We have these things we call pitch accents, which are often like, go up and down. So I said, I think John took the book. I said a little louder and... But there is also, if you listen very carefully, the pitch goes up. Exactly. Partly just because it's longer, you'll lengthen the, make is more time for the pitch to rise.
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