{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.tongue-twister","code":"thing-q230052","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q230052/","name":"tongue-twister","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Information and virtual systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"INF","domain":["INF.MED"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A short spoken formula whose phoneme sequence is deliberately hard to articulate at speed, typically by packing similar or rapidly alternating sounds so that motor planning and coarticulation collide.","purpose":"Enable an AI agent to recognise a tongue-twister, assess its pronunciation challenge for a stated speaker and context, and decide how it may be presented, practised, adapted or evaluated.","scope":{"in":["Canonical or locally selected wording, sequence boundaries and repeat instructions","Language, dialect and pronunciation variants that affect the challenge","Sound sequences proposed or observed to provoke articulation errors","Speaker-relative difficulty under specified delivery conditions","Tongue-twister-specific practice, adaptation and assessment","Attribution and relationships among wording or pronunciation variants"],"out":["Clinical diagnosis or treatment plans for speech and language conditions","A speaker's general proficiency, identity or complete learning history","General phonological descriptions of a language or dialect","Audio-file storage, recording equipment and media asset management","Complete models of poems, jokes, songs or games containing a tongue-twister","General copyright administration and publication workflows"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["An articulation challenge can be identified or investigated in the expression's sound sequence; repetition or alliteration alone is insufficient.","Successful performance concerns producing the intended sequence accurately under stated conditions, rather than solving a riddle or interpreting a difficult meaning.","The challenge can be specified for a pronunciation variety; difficult spelling alone does not establish that an expression is a tongue-twister.","A difficult isolated word is not automatically a tongue-twister: record evidence that it is constructed, repeated or used as an articulation challenge.","A joke, poem or vocal exercise may also be a tongue-twister when its articulatory challenge can be identified independently of its other function."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"verbal-form-and-boundaries","name":"Verbal form and boundaries","description":"Establishes exactly what must be spoken and where a rendition begins and ends.","layers":[{"id":"target-expression","name":"Target expression","description":"Captures the selected verbal sequence without silently combining variants.","findings":[{"id":"reproducible-wording","name":"Reproducible wording","description":"Record 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pauses, self-corrections and restarts?","id":"scored-articulation-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which errors occurred at which sequence positions, and how many attempts met the success criterion?","id":"scored-articulation-q02","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Which sounds or events could not be scored confidently from the available evidence?","id":"scored-articulation-q03","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"practice-and-adaptation","name":"Practice and adaptation","description":"Governs changes to presentation or wording for a stated tongue-twister activity.","layers":[{"id":"practice-progression","name":"Practice progression","description":"Supports deliberate manipulation of pace, chunking and repeat count.","findings":[{"id":"targeted-practice-step","name":"Targeted practice step","description":"Select a practice adjustment tied to an observed or proposed difficulty and a stated objective.","questions":[{"text":"Is the immediate objective accurate sound order, fluent repetition, faster delivery or playful performance?","id":"targeted-practice-step-q01","kind":"action"},{"text":"Which segment, pace or repeat count should change next, and what observed result would justify progressing?","id":"targeted-practice-step-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"challenge-preserving-editing","name":"Challenge-preserving editing","description":"Evaluates whether adaptations retain the intended sound pattern.","findings":[{"id":"adaptation-consequences","name":"Adaptation consequences","description":"Record how substitutions, translations or shorter versions alter the target articulation task.","questions":[{"text":"Which sound sequence must an adaptation retain to serve the intended practice or performance objective?","id":"adaptation-consequences-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"After editing or translation, what pronunciation analysis and trial attempts are needed before claiming comparable 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