Quotes About Vocalization

At times, I can be vocal about what I think people want to hear as opposed to being vocal about what I really feel.

Men scream, that's why they gave us voices.

This variable, how a parent responds to a child's vocalizations—right in the moment—seems to be the most powerful mechanism pulling a child from babble to fluent speech.

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up.

Gorillas have a belch vocalization, which is sort of like, 'I'm OK, you're OK.' They do a pig grunt, which is reprimanding. They sing, they laugh, and they hoot, which grows into a chest-beating display.

You ought to choose fewer words that contain S for the time being. You are spitting all over me.

Our most important problem is that we can talk to express our thoughts.

One of his many interests was a concern to establish just how many vowels and consonants the human vocal tract is capable of producing in the languages of the world. The answer is more than people think. He estimated that there were over eight hundred different consonants and some two hundred different vowels.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Pain makes a noise.

Why do we say "dumb" (mute) for stupid? Because "a good mind means a good mouth," and the human mind is a verbalizing circuit.

A parrot can say anything Albert Einstein could say, as well as mimicking the sounds of phones ringing, doors slamming and sirens wailing. Whatever advantage Einstein had over a parrot, it wasn't vocal.

The monkey said, "Bad. Bad, shitty bad.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.

The various systems of accentuation and vocalization introduced into the text of the Bible by the Masoretes had started to develop by about the sixth or seventh century CE. As is well known, from the the tenth century one such system eventually imposed its authority over the others, spreading from Tiberias to the entire Jewish world.

There have been various attempts to reconstruct the vocalization and pronunciation of classical biblical Hebrew, which certainly differs considerably from that established by the Masoretes fifteen centuries later.

I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because when you're being a squeaky wheel, you're also really letting people know who you are.

The eighth ritual is the Ritual of the Spoken Word.

Life is more fun when you open your mouth.

Newborns can discriminate between their own cries and those of other babies. They get upset when they hear other babies cry, which is probably why, when one baby cries in a maternity ward, the others inevitably follow. It's always assumed that they're simply copying each other, but they're probably also pained by the sounds of distress. Human empathy develops early, and it's expressed vocally.

No other mammal produces even a fraction of the kind of original vocal play that human babies do.