Tongue Twisters

Overview

« How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood ? » A tongue twister is a sentence with much alliterations and is complicated to pronounce. A tongue twister must be spoken quickly and repeated a few times. Langage breaks down between and meaning. This film is a linguistic game between sound and meaning and a portrait of the linguistic reality of Berkeley. Many American people recite tongue twisters in diffrent languages and/or in English as second language : German, Englsih, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Mandarin, Korean, Croatian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Japonese, Farsi, Portuguese, Tagalog, Vietnamese.

Cast

K

Kea Anderson

L

Laura Altieri

M

Mike Arcega

L

Lindsay L. Benedict

F

Félix Bullot

Judith Butler

X

Xiaoning Cai

A

Ali Dadgar

N

Naira Der Kiureghian

S

Samera Esmeir

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