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Irene Scruggs

American singer

Aug 31, 2026

3:43
Can you give us an overview of that study and its findings? So the
3:48
goal of the first study was to establish the empirical facts about merged perception of pin-in-pin in individuals from the U.S. South.
3:57
So to do this, we created stimuli on a continuum between i and e.
4:02
So vowels are acoustically characterized by their first two spectral peaks, which we call formants.
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These peaks are formed by two sub-resonances in the oral cavity.
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So where we put our tongue changes where those resonances fall.
4:17
And it and a are very close together in formant space, which is why they are susceptible to merger.

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11:14
What are the next steps in the research?
12:37
I mean, if you fall, we have to get up
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and we a lot of the times we're alone.
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Like you're going to fall outside.
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How are you going to get up? Like what muscles do you need to use to get up? So that's what we train.
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That's our focus.
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We have a lot of fun with like local competitions and things like that.
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And the people that have really specific fitness goals, we're going to get them there.

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21:19
So you also have a, a no sweat intro.

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