Mini-Module 1: Prosody - It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing

This module is one of a ten part series with Kevin Williams, produced by PaTTAN. Our ability to think as well as to acquire and learn language is largely dependent on patterns, contrasts and constraints. Much like being adrift on a vast ocean, language, without these features, causes listeners to be awash in a sea of confusion, until some form ‘life ring’ is made available to use to take us to firmer foundation. This workshop will focus on prosodic features of language which provide such critical information.