Humans have been enormously successful in exploiting a range of sounds used in language, but none more so than the click consonants used by a few populations in eastern and southern Africa. New research suggests these click languages represent an ancient human language.

Four experiments investigated infants' sensitivity to large, approximate numerosities in auditory sequences. Prior studies provided evidence that 6-month-old infants discriminate large numerosities that differ by a ratio of 2.0, but not 1.5, when presented with arrays of visual forms in which many continuous variables are controlled. The present studies used a head-turn preference procedure to ...

The ability to discriminate between acoustic signals of different frequencies is fundamental to the interpretation of auditory information and the development of language perception and production. The fact that the human fetus responds to sounds of different frequencies raises the question of whether the fetus is able to discriminate between them? To investigate whether the fetus has the abili...

When learning language, humans have a tendency to produce more extreme distributions of speech sounds than those observed most frequently: In rapid, casual speech, vowel sounds are centralized, yet cross-linguistically, peripheral vowels occur almost universally. We investigate whether adults' generalization behavior reveals selective pressure for communication when they learn skewed distributi...

The finding of a multisensory representation of actions in a premotor area of the monkey brain suggests that similar multimodal action-matching mechanisms may also be present in humans. Based on the existence of an audiovisual mirror system, we investigated whether sounds referring to actions that can be performed by the perceiver underlie different processing in the human brain. We recorded mu...

Languages differ depending on the set of basic sounds they use (the inventory of consonants and vowels) and on the way in which these sounds can be combined to make up words and phrases (phonological grammar). Previous research has shown that our inventory of consonants and vowels affects the way in which our brains decode foreign sounds (Goto, 1971; Näätänen et al., 1997; Kuhl, 2000). Here, we...

For many centuries "rMias been the conventional wisdom that 'language' is one of the essential features that differentiates humans from other primates. However, the past quarter-century has witnessed an explosion in our understanding of the linguistic, psychological, physiological, and developmental aspects of language, and with these advances the uniqueness of language among Homo sapiens has f...

‘Percussive Sound’ may be considered as the audible result of objects engaging in collision, such as striking, scraping or shaking. The range of sounds created by the gamut of percussion instruments and struck found objects is vast, and the timbral variety of percussion is of interest to acoustic researchers and musicians alike. However such a varied body of sounds poses challenges when attempt...

Virtually every human faculty engage with imitation. One of the most natural and unexplored objects for the study of the mimetic elements in language is the onomatopoeia, as it implies an imitative-driven transformation of a sound of nature into a word. Notably, simple sounds are transformed into complex strings of vowels and consonants, making difficult to identify what is acoustically preserv...

The aim of the paper: to identify theoretically possibilities using elements theatre art in work language correction and analyze effectiveness developed program for L R.The theoretical part paper analyzes development a child's speech combination with other factors influencing development. introduction theatrical educational process today is new approach tracking acquisition each learner.Based o...