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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

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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."

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Speech & Rainbow Categorical Perception

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Coarticulation

Spectrogram segment A allows listener to guess both the consonant and the vowel !

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Vocal tract anatomy Organ Survival function Speech function Lungs exhange oxygen and carbon dioxide supply airstream Larynx/ Vocal cords seal air passages/ prevent food and liquids from entering the lungs produce vibration in resonating cavity Tongue move food within the mouth articulate sounds Teeth break up food provide passive articulator and acoustic baffle Lips seal oral cavity articulate sounds

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Adapted from W.T. Fitch, The Evolution of Speech

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From Language Files (7th ed.), p. 40

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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#

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Visible Speech

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"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.'"

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Place vs manner of articulation: McGurk Effect

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http://people.brandeis.edu/~smalamud/ling100/grrr.wav

"I put the grrr in swinger, baby!"

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