NYELVÉSZ

Dear all,

Mark Liberman at the Language Log
( http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/ ) has in the past couple
of days discussed a New York Times article that claims Hungarians to
speak faster than Americans. After his critical review of the original
study ( http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/language ... 03463.html )
he has now decided to do an experiment of his own. His blog entry
(dated today) reads:

"If you're a native speaker of Hungarian, know how to make an audio
recording on your computer (or would like to learn), and are willing
to devote a few minutes to science, please contact me. The goal is to
do a small experiment to test the relative speaking and subvocalizing
rates of Americans and Hungarians. (If you can recruit a few
Hungarian-speaking friends to join the group, so much the better.)"

This post, which includes Liberman's contact details, can be found at:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/language ... 03464.html

I thought that some of you might be interested in taking part in the
experiment. If not, please excuse my intrusion (and apologies to those
who do not speak Hungarian in the first place). I would also like to
take the opportunity to wish you all a pleasant last few weeks of the
summer vacation.

All the best,
Vili [Maunula]