Hauser & Fitch , in Morten H. Christiansen and Simon Kirby (Eds.) Language Evolution. Oxford (Oxford University Press), 2003, page 179: "What is perhaps uniquely human ... is our capacity to take the units that constitute spoken and signed language, and recombine them into an infinite variety of meaningful expressions."
Speech & Rainbow Categorical Perception
Coarticulation Spectrogram segment A allows listener to guess both the consonant and the vowel !
Vocal tract anatomy Organ Survival function Speech function Lungs exhange oxygen and carbon supply airstream dioxide Larynx/ seal air passages/ produce vibration in Vocal resonating cavity prevent food and liquids cords from entering the lungs Tongue move food within the mouth articulate sounds Teeth break up food provide passive articulator and acoustic baffle Lips seal oral cavity articulate sounds
Adapted from W.T. Fitch, The Evolution of Speech
From Language Files (7th ed.), p. 40
From the Ultimate Visual Dictionary, p. 245 Buzz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQfdCdFrjRo Hiss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYCtUfKkRJs Pop http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2601725867734426300&ei=BLmtSobtIIy5lQfV6v2eAw&q=national+geographic+champagne&hl=en&client=firefox-a#
Visible Speech
"What's this? That ain't proper writing, I can't read that." "I can. 'I say, Captain, buy a flower off a poor girl.'"
Place vs manner of articulation: McGurk Effect
http://people.brandeis.edu/~smalamud/ling100/grrr.wav "I put the grrr in swinger, baby!"
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