I can look at phonetics and phonology — speech sounds.

我可以研究语音和音韵——还有语音。

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

对听觉系统很容易——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.

菲弗想看看一天大的莉莉亚娜对不同的话声如何反应。

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音是如何产生的。

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

声音是通过气流从嘴巴或鼻腔流出产生的。

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间越长的人，大脑对演讲声音的反应能力也较迅速一些。

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

家们已经发现了语音与物体大小甚至味道之间的相似联系。

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

对！注意单词之间的连读和重音，会让你的口语听起更自然。

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，根据话者移动嘴唇的方式，一个人听到同一个演讲时的声音会有所不同。

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

那就是大脑赋予语音意义的地方。

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

会让你的书面作品和演讲听起更有趣。

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

意大利语有25个语音音素，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音有关的声音。

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

所以低频的语音声音可能是像“姆”、“哦”样的声音。

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

而高频语音声音通常是一些像th、ss、ff样的音。

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，以便微调语音的声音。

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

克劳斯： 对我们很容易...听觉系统，如果你想到语音。

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

语音转录：有两种转录语音的方法。

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

些语音过程在塑造语言中语音的发音模式方面发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含糊不清或异常，可能意味着他们大脑的语言区域正遭受氧气剥夺。