Misheard lyrics: Jimi Hendrix's 'Purple Haze' - Professor Andrew Nevins

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公開日: 2013年2月23日

In this interactive series of four videos, Professor Andrew Nevins (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) explains how almost every song lyric can be misunderstood. This video examines Jimi Hendrix's 'Purple Haze'. There are three examples following this video that you can click on:
Hall & Oates - 'Everytime You Go Away': http://youtu.be/abWW0BzCg10
'The Star-Spangled Banner': http://youtu.be/uNBKsLUo7_0
Intro video: http://youtu.be/dBnhkwRmYuQ

While slips of the tongue are well-known, slips of the ear have received far less attention. Professor Nevins has developed a database of 4000 naturally collected examples where the hearer is the source of miscommunication. Looking into recurrent slips reveals that our expectations can bias what we mishear, but within limits: the actual utterance and the misheard message must be phonetically close enough to allow our ears to deceive us.

Further info:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research/linguistics/People/linguistics-staff/andrew_nevins

N.B. We are using excerpts of the Jimi Hendrix video under UK Fair dealing, which is is for the purposes of non-commercial criticism or review (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing_in_United_Kingdom_law). We acknowledge the writer and performer to be Jimi Hendrix.

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