4/29/2023 0 Comments Words that sound like theactionThis argument is further supported by the assistant professor of audition and cognitive neuroscience Lars Riecke at Maastricht University. At 52 his ears lack high frequency sensitivity, a natural result of ageing and secondly, a difference in pronunciation between the North American accented computer-generated “Yanny” and “Laurel” and how the words would naturally be spoken in Australian or British English. That lack of ambiguity he says is probably down to two reasons: firstly his age. “All of this goes to highlight just how much the brain is an active interpreter of sensory input, and thus that the external world is less objective than we like to believe.”Īlais says that for him, and presumably many others, it’s “100% Yanny” without any ambiguity. Here, the Yanny/Laurel sound is meant to be ambiguous because each sound has a similar timing and energy content – so in principle it’s confusable. “If there is little ambiguity, the brain locks on to a single perceptual interpretation. This happens because the brain can’t decide on a definitive interpretation,” Alais says. “They can be seen in two ways, and often the mind flips back and forth between the two interpretations. Professor David Alais from the University of Sydney’s school of psychology says the Yanny/Laurel sound is an example of a “perceptually ambiguous stimulus” such as the Necker cube or the face/vase illusion. I might write about some funny situations.What do you hear?! Yanny or Laurel /jvHhCbMc8I- Cloe Feldman May 15, 2018 Poetry is fun! It's a playground for the imagination. Maybe a zoo keeper without a zoo or a lion that quacks like a duck or a shrimp with a limp. When I realised you could make up words when writing poems, it didn't take long to realise that I could make up characters and situations. You could even make up words like bloomlurgy, tangleflority, keyayaya, laykal wangdoolahlah! It's just a matter of playing with words, swapping everyday words for words you find funny or words you like the sound of. There are nonsense poems waiting to be created from everyday descriptions of a journey on a bus or a trip to the shops, a visit to the bathroom or a trip to the zoo. Then run the hippopotamus over each hippo and my peanut butter I'm going to swap toothbrush with hippopotamus and run with skedaddle and mouth with tuna fish and tongue with peanut butter. Then just swap some of the words with random words. Then run the toothbrush over each tooth and my tongue One way to create great nonsense poems is to first write some sentences about doing something very ordinary like brushing your teeth. They don't have to have a deep meaning in fact poems don't have to have any meaning at all they can be utter nonsense! Listening to the sounds around us can inspire poems. Onomatopoeia (sound words) are fun to play with because with sounds you get rhythms. Plop goes the elephant dung and bad is the smell. Roar goes the lion and drip goes the tap.ĭrop goes the penny as it splashes into the well. Words like moo, quack, roar, drip, drop, splash! By stringing sound words together it is possible to create a poem. It's a long word, but simply means words that are also sounds. One of my favourite poetic devices is onomatopoeia. At its heart, poetry is about having fun with words and the sounds that they make. It took me a long time to realise that it can be fun and that anyone can do it. When I was growing up, I thought poetry was very serious.
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