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vs. N - all or sonorants, voiced, and involve touching the tongue to the alveolar ridge or a little behind it. I have to admit being something of a Liberman fan : motor theory of speech perception. I put together the outline below in advance of my call w/ Natl Geographic in a few minsxxx ***** LAUREL

led n in nail): (voiced) alveolar nasal. 3. In/ (the phoneme spelled ng in sing): (voiced) velar nasal. Mark Jude Tramo, MD PhD Dept of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Dept of Musicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Director, The Institute for Music & Brain Science Co-Director, University of Californ

to the mid-70s; earlier if we count Sperr=, Gazzaniga et al's split brain research. That said, lesion effect stu=ies are not well suited to testing Liberman's hypothesis as fMRI. Mult=-channel EEG with principal component analysis and transcranial magnetic s=imulation may be applicable - they can be used

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since it was first articulated. G=ven that the first musical instrument was likely the human voice, and give= that song, not sonatas, are universal, Liberman's theory applies to m=sic - above and beyond the fact that speech intonation is often more impor=ant to communication than spoken words (especially,

01864370 EFTA02636184 M=rk Jude Tramo, MD PhD Dept of Integrative Biology &a=p; Physiology, UCLA College of Letters & Science Dept of Neuro=ogy, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Dept of Musicology,=UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Director, The In=titute for Music & Brain Science Co-Director, University of =aliforn