The Loudness Of Vowels Helps The Brain Break Down Speech Into Syl-La-Bles
Syllables are the building blocks of spoken language. And now a study of brain activity hints at how we extract them from a stream of speech.
by Jon Hamilton
Nov 20, 2019
2 minutes
When we hear a sentence, or a line of poetry, our brains automatically transform the stream of sound into a sequence of syllables.
But scientists haven't been sure exactly how the brain does this.
Now, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, think they've figured it out. The Wednesday in
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