Re: [An Academic Question] - Please a question related to speech/music sounds

On 7/8/07 11:23 AM,"MValg. - H&Sc." <velucchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[An Academic Question] - Please a question related to speech/music
sounds

Well, the study is involved on this question:


Dou you know if speech sounds of human language is related at High
Altitude, do you know about related study and/or article/papers? ... In
other words:



*** is the high altitude related to phonology (sound and use of
particular speech sounds...) in the develop of one language and not just
in the culture of this people... what sounds characterize language of
Andine/Himalayan/Ethiopian languages related to other low altitude
language ...



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I have no expertise in the subject of high altitude speech sounds, but as a
special education teacher who worked intensively with children on speech,
reading and language, I did run across some research that indicated that all
babies, regardless of the culture into which they are born, are born with
the ability to produce all the speech sounds used by any of the languages
throughout the world. By the age of about 18 months, however, a child has
lost the ability to produce naturally those sounds which are not common to
the language that he hears from his caregivers. This is why the older a
person is when they attempt to learn a new language, the harder it may be to
learn to pronounce sounds that are not part of his native language.

It is possible that the pressures, or lack thereof, of the atmosphere at
high altitudes might make it easier or harder to produce sounds that
resonate through the sinuses, but, I'm sorry, I'm not aware of any research
to support that.

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