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68: Lazy in a Good Way (with Mark Ellison)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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Can I Predict When You Use Flat Intonation?

We were interested in their accuracy across the whole sequence. But also in individual positions, because if you do better on all the individual positions, you do better overall. So what we found- Can I predict? You go for it. And exactly right. Intonation of some sort really matters. If you don't have intonation, like everything's flat, people are doing really badly. The next worst one of our four was this falling intonation at the end. For many of us, it's the fault way you group things, but that would be why because it's the default. That is very potentially the case.

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