Speechstuff and Thoughtstuff:
	Musings On the Resonances Created By Words and Phrases
	 Via the Subliminal Perception of Their Buried Parts

			  Douglas Hofstadter
			  Indiana University

    How do we hear compound words?  What effect does calling a
brontosaurus by that name have on us, as opposed to Chinese people,
who (in some sense of the word) hear it as "thunder dragon"?  What if
you had grown up thinking of a proton as a "firstbit" and of hydrogen
as "waterstuff" -- would this change your view of the world?  How?  Or
would it have no effect at all?  These kinds of issues are seldom
confronted in cognitive science, and yet for me they lie at the core
of language.  The talk will be a set of explorations on these and
related themes involved words and concepts.