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You know, there are some sounds that we make when we speak Turkish that speakers of other languages have difficulty in making; for example, the ııı sound. Or the ğğğğ sound caused by the soft g. And of course the rrrr sound. Of course, there are sounds that speakers of other languages make that we find difficult to make, such as the "the" sound in English, laryngeal sounds like "kha" in Arabic or nasal sounds like "ghö" in French. In the Black Sea, for example, there is a village that speaks with a whistle. When you go to Africa, you hear sounds like "tloloku", which is made by clicking the tongue.
This is all well and good, but I wonder if you have ever thought about this: Humans have a repertoire of all the sounds they have ever made for communication. But on top of that, there are sounds that our speech system (that is, our vocal box, larynx, tongue and teeth) allows us to make, sounds that have not yet been made in any language. What do these sounds sound like? But there are crazier ones: There are also sounds that we imagine we can make, but can't because we haven't evolved the necessary vocal equipment. This is the story of those "forbidden sounds"...
#ForbiddenVoices #Voice #Linguistics
00:00: Introduction: Difficult Sounds in Different Languages
01:15 Sponsor Message
02:19 Talking and Communication: What Makes a Person "Human"?
03:32 How Do We Speak?
04:06 How are dialects and dialects formed?
04:40 What is a Phoneme?
05:00 Phonemic Orthography: Is Turkish Read as it is Written?
07:43 Minimal Pairs: How Do We Identify Phonemes?
10:15 Evolution: What Determines Which Sounds We Can Make?
10:55 International Phonetic Alphabet: What Sounds Can We Make as Humans?
13:48 Sounds we can make but don't (or don't change the meaning if we do)!
14:35 Forbidden Sounds: What Sounds Our Evolution Doesn't (Yet) Allow?
15:25 Closing: How would our thinking change if we could make the Forbidden Sounds?
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