I can look at phonetics and phonology — speech sounds.

我可以研究语和韵——还有语。

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

对听觉系统来说这很容易——如果你想到的是语素。

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

菲弗想看看一天大的莉莉亚娜对不同的说话声如何反应。

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

但是首先我们需要谈论一下声是如何产生的。

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的人，大脑对演讲声的反应能力也较迅速一些。

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

声是通过气流从嘴巴或鼻腔流出产生的。

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

科家们已经现了语与物体大小甚至味道之的相似联系。

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

对！注意单词之的连读和重，这会让你的口语听起来更自然。

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，根据说话者移动嘴唇的方式，一个人听到同一个演讲时的声会有所不同。

That's where the brain attaches meaning to speech sounds.

那就是大脑赋予语意义的地方。

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.

意大利语有25个语素，只有33种拼写方式。

You can think about it a little bit around speech sounds.

你可以稍微想想与语有关的声。

So a low-frequency speech sound might be mm, ooh, those kinds of sounds.

所以低频的语声可能是像“姆”、“哦”这样的声。

So you put things on loops in order to fine tune the way the speech sounds.

所以你把事情放在循环中，以便微调语的声。

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

克劳斯： 这对我们来说很容易...听觉系统，如果你想到语。

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

而高频语声通常是一些像th、ss、ff这样的。

Phonetic Transcription: There are two ways to transcribe speech sounds.

语转录：有两种转录语的方法。

These phonological processes play a crucial role in shaping the pronunciation patterns of speech sounds within a language.

这些语过程在塑造语言中语的模式方面挥着至关重要的作用。

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或异常，这可能意味着他们大脑的语言区域正遭受氧气剥夺。