I can look at phonetics and phonology — speech sounds.

我可以研究语音学和音韵学——还有语音。

The study measured the ability of the children to recognize differences in Mandarin speech sounds that they heard. The children who listened to recorded Mandarin did not experience the same learning progress as those who received a live social presentation.

该研究测试了孩子们辨别普通话语音差异的能力。收听普通话录音的孩子们的学习进度与在现场社交活动中听到普通话的孩子们的学习进度不同。

That's easy for our...auditory system, if you think of speech sounds.

对听觉系统来说这很容易——如果你想到的是语音音素。

Fifer wants to see how one-day-old Liliana responds to speech sounds generated by different voices.

菲弗想看看的莉莉亚娜对不同的说话声如何应。

Speech sounds are made by air moving outward through the mouth or nose.

声音是通过气流从鼻腔流出产生的。

This was the first serious disagreement, her own hasty speeches sounded both silly and unkind, as she recalled them, her own anger looked childish now, and thoughts of poor John coming home to such a scene quite melted her heart.

这是两人第次重的意见分歧，她回想起来，自己那些凭时冲动说的话听上去真是既愚蠢又刻薄，而她的愤怒这时看来也是那么孩子气，想到可怜的约翰回得家来面临这样的个场面，她的心软化了。

The team also reported more success synthesizing slower speech sounds like " sh, " and less success with harder sounds like " b" or " p" .

该研究团队在报告中还指出，在合成较慢语速的语音表达时，成功率更高，如" sh" ，而在合成" b" 者" p" 等更难的语音表达时，成功率则更低。

That's when someone will hear the same speech sounds differently, based on how the person saying them is moving their lips.

也就是说，根据说话者移动唇的方式，个人听到同个演讲时的声音会有所不同。

Yes! Pay attention to the way words are connected and stressed, it makes your speech sound more natural.

对！注意单词之间的连读和重音，这会让你的口语听起来更自然。

And the more years study subjects played instruments, the faster their brains responded to speech sound.

该研究调查的对象中接触乐器时间越长的人，脑对演讲声音的应能力也较迅速些。

But first we need to talk a bit about how speech sounds are made.

但是首先我们需要谈论下声音是如何产生的。

Part of our research has to do with helping to understand the roots of, of language reception and how it is that babies begin to understand speech sounds.

我们的部分研究得有助于人们理解语言接受的根源和婴儿开始认识说话声音的过程。

Scientists have already discovered similar associations between speech sounds and the size of objects and even taste.

科学家们已经发现了语音与物体小甚至味道之间的相似联系。

This will make you written work and your speech sound more interesting.

这会让你的书面作品和演讲听起来更有趣。

Italian has 25 speech sounds and only 33 ways to spell them.

意利语有25个语音音素，只有33种拼写方式。

And then high-frequency speech sounds are often things like th, ss, ff.

而高频语音声音通常是些像th、ss、ff这样的音。

And it’s not just one single area in your brain that’s in charge all of this — a recent study has found that speech sounds seem to come from coordinated motor patterns

不仅仅是脑中的个区域负责这切— —最近的项研究发现， 语音似乎来自协调的运动模式。

The common pronunciation of ask as aks is an example of metathesis in which two speech sounds are allowed in flexible order.

ask 的常见发音为 aks 是个元分解的例子，其中允许以灵活的顺序排列两个语音。

If their speech sounds slurred or strange, it could mean that the language area of their brain is oxygen deprived.

如果他们的言语听起来含糊不清异常，这可能意味着他们脑的语言区域正遭受氧气剥夺。

Imagine that the speech sound is articulated by a Speaker A, transmitted to and perceived by a Hearer B. In this process, a speech sound goes through a three-step process (Figure 2-1).

语音学 (Phonetics) 研究语音的发生、传递和感知。假设说话人甲发出语音，传递给受话人乙并被乙所感知，这样语音就经历了图 2 - 1 所示的过程。