Tongue Twisters
01/01/2011
0h 11m



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« 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
Kea Anderson
Laura Altieri
Mike Arcega
Lindsay L. Benedict
Félix Bullot


Judith Butler
Xiaoning Cai
Ali Dadgar
Naira Der Kiureghian
Samera Esmeir
Nadine Hochouche
Gab-Soon Kang
Catherine Malabou
Targol Mesbah
Indira Mesihovic
Ramona Naddaff
Minh Quang Nguyễn
Junko Rose
Rosi Reyes
Ramina Sarmicanic
Aya Shimano-Bardai
Geana Sieburger
Ann Smock
William Smock
Jackie Yen
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