Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Influencers use secret linguistic tricks to manipulate, influence, and control your attention so they can go viral. If you want to understand these secret tricks so you can be better equipped to recognize them, or so you can go viral in 2025, this shocking explainer will expose their secrets.
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Edited with Gling AI: bit.ly/46bGeYv
Influencers use secret linguistic tricks to manipulate, influence, and control your attention so they can go viral. If you want to understand these secret tricks so you can be better equipped to recognize them, or so you can go viral in 2025, this shocking explainer will expose their secrets.
patreon: patreon.com/languagejones
#linguistics #viralvideo #neuroscience #unconsciousbias #influencer #attentioneconomy #attention
Edited with Gling AI: bit.ly/46bGeYv







![I Tried to Teach Phonology with a Mouthful of Marshmallows
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Can a bag of marshmallows explain the most complex concept in phonology? 🍬🗣️
Most people think of sounds as the atoms of language, but even atoms have a sub-atomic structure. In this video, I take the Fluffy Bunny marshmallow challenge to a scientific extreme to demonstrate distinctive features and feature geometry.
By jamming the switches of my own speech with marshmallows, we’ll explore how your brain actually maps sounds. We’ll move from a video game character selection screen metaphor to a birds on a wire visualization of how vowels interact across different tiers.
In this video, you’ll learn:
• Why phonemes arent as simple as they seem.
• The Light Switch Metaphor: Understanding binary features like [Voice] and [Nasal].
• Feature Matrices: How linguists organize the building blocks of speech.
• Feature Geometry: Why vowels can see each other over a crowd of consonants.
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🕒 CHAPTERS
• 0:00 The Fluffy Bunny Phonology Challenge
• 0:31 Are Phonemes Actually Atoms?
• 2:22 Babbel sponsorship
• 3:14 Character Selection: The Parameters of Sound
• 4:09 The Light Switch: Binary Features
• 5:17 Marshmallows vs. Coronal Switches
• 5:22 The Linguistics Blueprint
• 5:52 The Feature Matrix
• 7:05 Feature Geometry: Birds on a Wire
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About Dr. Taylor Jones: I’m a PhD linguist (University of Pennsylvania) dedicated to making the science of language accessible, fun, and occasionally involving snacks.
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