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Presently, this gallery contains images relating to [[linguistics]] and [[language]] (''work in progress!''). Please add more. | Presently, this gallery contains images relating to [[linguistics]] and [[language]] (''work in progress!''). Please add more. | ||
[[Image:Spoken-language-naples.jpg| | <div class="thumb tleft" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin:0.5em;"> | ||
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[[Image: | |valign=top|[[Image:Spoken-language-naples.jpg|350px]] | ||
<div style="border: none; width:350px;"><div class="thumbcaption">[[Human]]s instinctively [[communication|communicate]], as the conversation of these two men in [[Naples]], [[Italy]] shows.</div></div> | |||
[[Image:Asl-i-love-you.jpg| | |valign=top|[[Image:Churchill-roosevelt-statues.jpg|350px]] | ||
<div style="border: none; width:350px;"><div class="thumbcaption">One reason to study [[linguistics]] is its importance in human culture - so important is this urge to [[communication|communicate]] that it is often depicted in [[art]].</div></div> | |||
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[[Image:Writing-pen-english.jpg| | <div style="border: none; width:350px;"><div class="thumbcaption">''I love you'' in [[American Sign Language]].</div></div> | ||
|valign=top|[[Image:Spoken-language-naples-bike.jpg|350px]] | |||
[[Image:Asl-lecture-in-asl.jpg| | <div style="border: none; width:350px;"><div class="thumbcaption">Stopping and talking is central to human [[culture]].</div></div> | ||
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[[Image:Chinese-keyboard.jpg| | |valign=top|[[Image:Writing-pen-english.jpg|350px]] | ||
<div style="border: none; width:350px;"><div class="thumbcaption">An example of [[written language]] - in this case, [[English language|English]].</div></div> | |||
[[Image:Vowels-spectrogram-british-english-adult-male.jpg| | |valign=top|[[Image:Asl-lecture-in-asl.jpg|350px]] | ||
<div style="border: none; width:350px;"><div class="thumbcaption">This lecture on American Sign Language is being conducted in ASL. Today, much research on sign language comes from [[linguist]]s who are themselves [[deafness|deaf]].</div></div> | |||
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<div style="border: none; width:350px;"><div class="thumbcaption">Language may be written using different [[orthography|orthographies]] using modern [[technology]].</div></div> | |||
|valign=top|[[Image:marines-poo-diving-shop-japan.jpg|350px]] | |||
<div style="border: none; width:350px;"><div class="thumbcaption">Why this shop name in [[Japan]]? Linguists also investigate how language is used, but how it is 'abused' is left to others.</div></div> | |||
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<div style="border: none; width:350px;"><div class="thumbcaption">[[Phonetics]] often involves modern [[technology]] to analyse speech, providing evidence for linguists on the nature of [[spoken language]]. This [[spectrogram]] as used in [[acoustic phonetics]] shows the [[frequency|frequencies]] of vibrations involved in the production of six [[British English]] [[vowel]]s by an [[adult]] [[male]] [[native speaker]]: from left to right, the vowels as in ''bee'', ''sue'', ''herd'', ''or'', ''bar'' and ''buy''. The bands of energy ([[formant]]s) are distinctive for each vowel; for example, the lower the bottom formant ('F1'), the higher the vowel is articulated in the [[mouth]]. The greater the distance between F1 and the second-lowest 'F2' formant correlates with how far back in the mouth the vowel is produced. This image was created using the [http://www.praat.org Praat] freeware program.<br><br><br> | |||
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Revision as of 03:34, 15 July 2007
Presently, this gallery contains images relating to linguistics and language (work in progress!). Please add more.
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One reason to study linguistics is its importance in human culture - so important is this urge to communicate that it is often depicted in art. |
I love you in American Sign Language. |
Stopping and talking is central to human culture. |
An example of written language - in this case, English. |
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Language may be written using different orthographies using modern technology. |
Why this shop name in Japan? Linguists also investigate how language is used, but how it is 'abused' is left to others. |
Phonetics often involves modern technology to analyse speech, providing evidence for linguists on the nature of spoken language. This spectrogram as used in acoustic phonetics shows the frequencies of vibrations involved in the production of six British English vowels by an adult male native speaker: from left to right, the vowels as in bee, sue, herd, or, bar and buy. The bands of energy (formants) are distinctive for each vowel; for example, the lower the bottom formant ('F1'), the higher the vowel is articulated in the mouth. The greater the distance between F1 and the second-lowest 'F2' formant correlates with how far back in the mouth the vowel is produced. This image was created using the Praat freeware program.
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