Steve Latham wrote:
>> This is called the Cambridge Effect and research has shown it works for
>> English, French and Spanish. Recent research has shown that it doesn't
>> work with Semitic languages, where words are built from three letter
roots
>> with more letters added to the front, back, or middle of words to show
>> possession, gender, tense, etc. And pictographic languages like
Mandarin
>> or Japanese are likely to have a very different take on the Cambridge
>> Effect,
....
> I wonder though if there are other "mix-ups" for those languages that
yield
> similar results????
> Steve
It is just typical of human cognition that one recognizes things by just
some components fitting patterns based on experience. If one knows those
patterns, one can play around with it. One variation is producing
information that fits more than pattern, producing those optical and
auditory illusions.
Hans
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