Here is a fun website with lots of puzzles - from easy to hard - involving linguistics. Enjoy!
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Human Speech System: Test your lip-reading ability
Speech scientists have long known that seeing individuals can, even unconsciously, use lip-reading to assist in decoding words spoken in a conversation. (Note: lip-reading words spoken randomly, without context, is very difficult). This entertaining and challenging puzzle (link to a Wired on-line article entitled A Classic Back-to-School Lip-Reading Puzzle) will test whether you can match a given list of names to faces in an illustration by lip-reading, given the context that each boy in the illustration is on the verge of pronouncing his name.
Enjoy!