Linguistics Study Claims That Languages Are Louder in the Tropics
Lewicki took this as evidence for the theory that human speech evolved to make best use of the existing encoding scheme of the auditory system.9
Grace Lindsay • Models of the Mind
it is precisely those areas of the Earth that were the most hospitable to people and languages, to species of all kinds, that are now becoming the least hospitable.
Anastasia Riehl • The Rising Ocean Will Extinguish More Than Land. It Will Kill Entire Languages
the deficits we call “tone deafness” or “left-footedness” are largely cultural.
Adriana Barton • Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound
The model used recordings made before the winterers left to simulate what might happen to their accents as they spent time together. Their prediction was unerringly accurate, even if it did exaggerate the effects compared to what happened in real life. The winterers themselves wouldn't have noticed either as they happened over time. But when the so
... See moreRichard Gray • Isolated for Six Months, Scientists in Antarctica Began to Develop Their Own Accent
Basically: A prosodic voice is the opposite of a monotone voice.
Stephen W. Porges • Our Polyvagal World
But people who are moderately uncertain of their economic future, who live in less-productive territories and have to rely on multiple sources of income (like the Kachin in Burma or most middle-class families with two income earners), maintain numerous weak ties with a wider variety of people. They often learn two or more languages or dialects, bec
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