“Try to have a ten minute conversation with two different people in which you DO NOT use the letter “n.” Write a reflection about the experience.”
At first, I was very careful, and it made by speech very choppy. My wife said it was frustrating to hear me because I spoke so slowly. The few times that I made mistakes, I got flustered, so I would go back and try to rephrase each statement without the letter “n.”
After I completed the exercise, I tried to resume the same dialog with my wife where we left off, but I started to speak with disjointed sentence fragments, and was even more difficult to listen to for a few minutes.
Tags: cognition, cognitive psychology, language acquisition, speech acquisition
