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074 = Chocolate Powder Fails and Consonant/Vowel Details

December 04, 2023 48:20 46.38 MB Downloads: 0

On this episode…

🍫 Can you prevent hot chocolate from clumping?

🖊 When is a vowel a vowel? 

👾 We have some Discord news! 

💼 And a small amount of Business, of Any Other nature. 

The holidays have arrived early because, and APS DISCORD IS FINALLY HERE! Head on over using this link: https://discord.gg/mYEZR3Hp

You too can make your computer talk! Here's a link to the Praat vowel software Matt was using at the start of today’s Dinglet: https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

If you’d like to see the Vowel Space video referenced by Matt follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdldD0-kEcc

And for more from linguist and phonetics expert Dr Geoff Lindsay (and with that voice, who wouldn't!) you can do that here: https://www.youtube.com/@DrGeoffLindsey

If you know anything about the Apollo 11 flight diagram depicted here: https://tinyurl.com/4wjwcu6c let us know! 

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