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Bob Kennedy
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at UCSB; aka bk.dot.sb; Phonology, Socioling, Variation, Lang and Sports, Meme creator & theorist, Genre-shifted music; UAz, U'O, LCI, Jeop!, H&C
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Yes, Dec through early Feb

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2 twist 2 turious

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In 2021 when we taught online I started each lecture with a song selection from youtube. On Feb 2 that year I used I Got You Babe. Played it again the next class, Feb 4. Sadly, no laughs or any other kind of reactions

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In the example you give, I assume you've used allcaps to indicate phrasal stress occurring earlier than the final word (which ofc happens if discourse context motivates it)

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I'd call it focus stress. Unless context demands otherwise, primary phrasal stress tends to occur on the primary stressed syllable of the final word. Focus = primary phrasal stress occurring somewhere other than canonical position

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We also have an endearing trait in which no two big lecture halls have the same room number, so 1004, 1006, 1179, 1560, 1009 are all the largest halls in their respective buildings (and that's an incomplete list too)

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U of Ottawa, U of Arizona, UCSB are all Bldg-Rm. I've heard the opposite at UCSB but the directory system definitely uses bldg first

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and for good measure

same prompt but asking chat to treat the question like a Jeopardy clue; chat gives same response but in the form of a question
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I'm not usually a "look what shite I got the AI to produce" kind of guy anymore, but behold:

Prompt asks ChatGPT a trivia question, ChatGPT gets it very wrong
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I would not have noticed if you had not pointed it out!

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Bob Kennedy
@bobksb.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at UCSB; aka bk.dot.sb; Phonology, Socioling, Variation, Lang and Sports, Meme creator & theorist, Genre-shifted music; UAz, U'O, LCI, Jeop!, H&C
184 followers128 following143 posts