Sentences with phrase «produce vowels»

The team is working on giving it the ability to shape its lips and produce vowels and consonants, in a bid to produce increasingly human - like speech.

When we produce a vowel, the vocal tract (throat and oral cavity) behaves like a system of moving pipes with specific resonances.

Each of the tubes is shaped after acoustic filters that produce vowel - like sounds when used in combination with a reed.

Not exact matches

Your baby's babbling may produce various combinations of consonants and vowel sounds that eventually turn into words, such as mama.

They are now able to combine more consonants and vowels to produce longer vocalized sequences («ma - bu - ma - goo»).

Air forced down them produced different vowel sounds, and half of the models had an extra chamber to mimic an air sac.

But studies suggest it is easier to produce a consonant plus a vowel, and «d» is easier to form with «u».

Based on sketchy fossil evidence, some anthropologists argue that Neanderthals could make limited vocalizations but that they lacked the full range of modern humans; in particular, they were probably limited in the vowel sounds they could produce.

«Anatomy doesn't impede primates from producing distinct vocalisations that are homologues to different human vowels,» says Adriano Lameira of the University of St Andrews in the UK.

To compare hearing ability in former musicians to people who never played an instrument, researchers measured the electrical brain activity produced by a type of auditory processing called «neural timing,» which enables people to respond to split - second changes in sound such as the transition from a consonant to a vowel.

Hyperarticulation of vowels may be the aspect of IDS that assists spoken language acquisition (Kuhl et al. 1997) and the speaker's hyperarticulation may be mediated by the perceived linguistic capacity of the receiver; evidence that supports this view is provided by a study that compared speech produced to dogs, parrots and infants.