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Powerful Lady Talks Unusually
"So Ms. Abramson's 20-25 Hz phrase-final amplitude modulation of her 140-145 Hz fundamental frequency is heard as a sort of superimposed infrasound. (Technically "infrasound" should be below 20 Hz, but this is close.) 140 Hz is not unusually low for the bottom of an adult woman's pitch range — but 20-25 Hz is low for humans of any kind…. [T]his is first time that I've ever seen such a large-factor amplitude modulation so stably superimposed on a speaker's sequence of pitch pulses."
—So Times executive editor Jill Abramson is apparently a freak of nature.
I was trying to wrap my head around her accent, but then CBS Sunday Morning actually went as far as to accentsplain that for me, even attempting to pinpoint it to a locale as specific as the UWS which was like _________.
I do nerd out on audio things but that Language Log article just grabbed me in a sure-why-the-hell-not sort of way.
"Humans of any kind" strikes me as incredibly suspicious phrasing.
"[T]his is first time that I've ever seen such a large-factor amplitude modulation": TWSS
Let's talk about how there are 29 comments to the Language Log post so far.
I am just waiting for Diane Rehm to do a show with her where they just talk for an hour about how they talk.
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