PPT-From Sounds to Language

Lecture 2 Spoken Language Processing Prof Andrew Rosenberg Linguistic sounds How does a sound wave become language Sounds are continuous wave forms Linguistic units are categorical How is the human perceptual system able to categorize and combine linguistic sounds into language. Audible Sounds. Onomatopoeia. (16) – use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes. Quack, buzz, rattle, bang, squeak, bowwow, burp, . choo-choo. Alliteration. (14) – repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of nearby words. CS 4706. Julia Hirschberg. Linguistic . Sounds. What . is the sound inventory of a language X?. How are they produced? . What sounds are . shared . by languages X and Y? Which are not?. How do particular sounds vary in context?. Introducer : Eunouk Kim. Sounds of . Heaven. History. Structure & Type. Flutist. History of Flute. Prehistoric ages. Renaissance (medieval~15C). Baroque period(16C~19C). Boehm(18C). Modern times. 1. 1. Learning the letter sounds. Phonetics is concerned with describing the speech sounds that occur in the languages of the world. We want to know what these sounds are, how they fall into patterns, and how they change in different circumstances… The first job of the phoneticians is … to try to find out what people are doing when they are talking and when they are listening to speech. We simply don’t know how language originated. . We do know that the ability to produce sound and simple vocal patterning (a hum versus a grunt, for example) appears to be in an ancient part of the brain that we share with all vertebrates, including fish, frogs, birds and. In this chapter:.  . We will look at how these symbols are used to represent both the consonant and vowel sounds of English words.. What physical aspects of the human vocal tract are involved in the production of those sounds. We are learning to: annotate the text and identify the use of poetic techniques. . Thinking About Silence. Think about the different types of silence that you can have.. What kind of silence do you have when you are happy?. VIEW. Ahmad . Baki. , RN, BSN. Hameed . Zahedi, RN, BSN, PhD in ESL. Objectives. Shedding light on the concept of . language barrier. from a linguistic point of view. Agenda. The structure of the presentation:. Heart Sounds: Apical Pulse. CMS of Extremities. Bowel Sounds. Keith Rischer, RN, MA, CEN, CCRN. Prioritization: Know Your A,B,C’s!. A. B. C. D. Chest Landmarks. Chest Landmarks. What are you hearing?. Plosives . What is a plosive sound? . How many types of plosive sounds are there in English? . Fricatives . How is a fricative sound produced? . Nasals . How can you define a nasal sound? . Semi-vowels. Ref: . Hercus. , . Luise. (1994) ‘A Grammar of the . Arabana-Wangkangurru. Language, Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia’ . Eleanor McCall (Mobile Language Team). Sept 2017. The three ‘r’s. r. We are learning to: annotate the text and identify the use of poetic techniques. . Thinking About Silence. Think about the different types of silence that you can have.. What kind of silence do you have when you are happy?. Psycholinguistics – Meeting 8. At birth . we cannot comprehend speech, nor can we produce speech. Yet, . by the . age of 4 years we have learned vocabulary and grammatical rules . for creating . a variety of sentence structures including negatives, questions, .