Have you ever had a conversation in front of a newborn? Afterwards, did you ever wonder whether they understood anything you said? Did they interpret your speech as meaningful or as nonsensical sounds? It turns out that infants begin to process and make inferences about speech from birth, and they even come with some knowledge […]
Browsing Tag: Speech Sounds
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~Automagically~ Measuring Baby Speech Development
If you’re a parent, you’ve probably noticed how your baby’s sounds change over time. At first, they make simple consonant- or vowel-only sounds like “mmmm” and “aaa”. But then something exciting happens: they start combining consonants and vowels in sounds like “bababa”. These combinations are a big deal for language development. They are a sign […]
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Phonology: the study of speech sounds in the mind
What is Phonology? Did you know that you had a set of unconscious rules about how you can arrange sounds in your language? Phonology is a field of study in linguistics that examines the patterns of sounds within a language and across different languages. It aims to study how we, as humans, mentally organize the […]