Re: Questions about Schwa and Stress

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 19:55:33 -0400 Roger Mills <romilly@...> writes:
> What is Praat?  I love things played backwards.  A long time ago,
> messing
> around with a friend's unfamiliar tape-recorder, I put in the demo
> tape, and
> heard strange music and a Most Curious Language.  Sounded like fake
> Swedish
> (a little sing-songy) spoken by a Russian (lots of palatalization).
> The
> most frequent word seemed to be [ojIr'its].  Eventually I figured
> out, or
> was told, that the tape had somehow got rewound backwards.  It was
> English.
-

Somewhere on the Jim Henson muppet website, there's a video example of a
song from "Fraggle Rock" which i downloaded to my computer.  I like
listening to it backwards - i've even borrowed a few of its backwards
words for Rokbeigalmki.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "daaghre..."