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语音差异能力。收听普录音孩子们学习进度与在现场社交活动中听到普孩子们学习进度不同。

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.

菲弗想看看一天大莉莉亚娜对不同说声如何应。

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

声音是过气流从嘴巴或鼻腔流出产生。

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.

这是两人第一次重大意见分歧，回想起来，自己那些凭一时冲动说听上去真是既愚蠢又刻，愤怒这时看来也是那么孩子气，想到可怜约翰回得家来面临这样一个场面，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，在合成较慢语速语音表达时，成功率更高，如" sh" ，在合成" b" 或者" p" 等更难语音表达时，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，根据说者移动嘴唇方式，一个人听到同一个演讲时声音会有所不同。

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

对！注意单词之间连读和重音，这会让你口语听起来更自然。

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

该研究调查对象中接触乐器时间越长人，大脑对演讲声音应能力也较迅速一些。

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

但是首先我们需要谈论一下声音是如何产生。

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.

我们部分研究得有助于人们理解语言接受根源和婴儿开始认识说声音过程。

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大小甚至味道之间相似联系。

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

这会让你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个语音音素，只有33种拼写方式。

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

高频语音声音常是一些像th、ss、ff这样音。

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

不仅仅是大脑中一个区域负责这一切— —最近一项研究发现， 语音似乎来自协调运动模式。

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

ask 常见发音为 aks 是一个元分解例子，其中允许以灵活顺序排列两个语音。

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

如果他们言语听起来含糊不清或异常，这可能意味着他们大脑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) 研究语音发生、传递和感知。假设说人甲发出语音，传递给受人乙并被乙所感知，这样语音就经历了图 2 - 1 所示过程。