I can look at phonetics and phonology — speech sounds.

我可以研究语学和韵学——还有语。

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

这里是大脑把意思和声所联系起来的地方。

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

对听觉系统来这很容易——如果你想到的是语素。

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。

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。

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

菲想看看一天大的莉莉亚娜对不同的声如何反应。

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.

科学家们已经发现了语与物体大小甚至味道之间的相似联系。

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。

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

这将使您的书面作业和演讲听起来更有趣。

One of the speech sounds -- they -- exists in English but not in French.

其中一种语——它们——存在于英语中，但不存在于法语中。

" It's like an alphabet of speech sounds, " David Moses, the project manager, said.

“这就像一个语字母表，”项目经理大卫·摩西。

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

克劳斯： 这对我们来很容易...听觉系统，如果你想到语。

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。

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

如果他们的讲听起来含糊不清或奇怪，则可能意味着他们大脑的语言区域缺氧。

For one experiment, she and her team recruited native English speakers and native French speakers to listen to speech sounds.

在一项实验中，她和她的团队招募了以英语为母语的人和以法语为母语的人来听语。

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

ask 的常见发为 aks 是一个元分解的例子，其中允许以灵活的顺序排列两个语。

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表达时，成功率更高，如" sh" ，而在合成" b" 或" p" 等更难的语表达时，成功率则更低。

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声的过程。

It's pretty astounding at faking  what human speech sounds like, but humans are still the only computers that  can create the thoughts behind the words.

伪造人类语言的声非常惊人，但人类仍然是唯一能够在语言背后创造思想的计算机。