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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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The Best Remembered Sequences

If you accent the third word in a group of three, you get better accuracy on that word. But people are no better with the other words. This is so weird that we are so sensitive to this,. Yes, it's shocking. I didn't know about this and I wasn't interested in one ends before getting involved in. And now it's like the most interesting thing in language. It's like telling us where to look.

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