Tongue Twisters

(2011)

★ 10 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2011

Runtime: 11 мин

Country: France, United States of America

Director: Érik Bullot

Cast: Kea Anderson, Laura Altieri, Mike Arcega, Lindsay L. Benedict, Félix Bullot, Judith Butler, Xiaoning Cai, Ali Dadgar, Naira Der Kiureghian, Samera Esmeir

Plot

« 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.