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University College London

Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences

Language: English Studies in English

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

University website: www.ucl.ac.uk

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Hearing

Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds by detecting vibrations, changes in the pressure of the surrounding medium through time, through an organ such as the ear. The academic field concerned with hearing is auditory science.

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Speech

Speech is the vocalized form of communication used by humans and some animals, which is based upon the syntactic combination of items drawn from the lexicon. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units (phonemes). These vocabularies, the syntax that structures them, and their sets of speech sound units differ, creating many thousands of different, and mutually unintelligible, human languages. The vocal abilities that enable humans to produce speech also enable them to sing.

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Speech

Miss not the discourse of the elders.

Ecclesiaticus, VIII. 9.

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Hearing

Within a bony labyrinthean cave,
Reached by the pulse of the aërial wave,
This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found,
Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.

Abraham Coles, Man, the Microcosm; and the Cosmos, p. 51.

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Speech

Even then he had those piercing cat's eyes of his and when he had said something, finished up by saying: "If I'm wrong, put me right." And so I began to understand that you didn't speak for the sake of speaking, to say that you had done this or that, what you had eaten or drunk, but to work out an idea, to find out what makes the world go round.

Cesare Pavese, The moon and the bonfire, chapter XVII, p. 98.

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