I can look at phonetics and phonology — speech sounds.

我可以研究语音学和音韵学——还有语音。

That's where the brain attaches meaning to speech sounds.

这里是大脑把意思和声音所联系起来的地方。

That's easy for our...auditory system, if you think of speech sounds.

对听觉系统来说这很容易——如果你想到的是语音音素。

Speech sounds are made by air moving outward through the mouth or nose.

声音是通过气流从嘴巴或鼻腔流出产生的。

But first we need to talk a bit about how speech sounds are made.

但是首先我们需要谈论一下声音是如何产生的。

Fifer wants to see how one-day-old Liliana responds to speech sounds generated by different voices.

菲弗想看看一天大的莉莉亚娜对不同的说话声如何反应。

And the more years study subjects played instruments, the faster their brains responded to speech sound.

该研究调查的对象中接触乐器时间越长的人，大脑对演讲声音的反应能力也较迅速一些。

Scientists have already discovered similar associations between speech sounds and the size of objects and even taste.

科学家们已经发现了语音与物体大小甚至味道之间的相似联系。

This will make you written work and your speech sound more interesting.

这将使您的书面作业和演讲听起来更有趣。

One of the speech sounds -- they -- exists in English but not in French.

其中一种语音——它们——存在于英语中，但不存在于法语中。