Kegan Deboheme often mentions formants as important to learning how to sing much higher. Thanks to this video, I now see why they matter and how they've guided his choices in vowel modifications. Much appreciated! 🙏
A common syllable in Chinese "hui" found in people's names among other words is a very vulgar word in Russian. They typically change the pronunciation to "hu-ei" to avoid saying the word.
Very good explanation, I really wish you would also show how the American R is made and where this new F3 frequency comes from. A third chamber??? where?
Taboo is a big topic in anthropology and religious studies too. My favorite examples are cultyres with taboos so strong that they DON'T name the taboo object at all. The most ridiculous version (to me) is making soeaking the name of a particular deity taboo. It just gets so c ridiculous so quickly. Any jews reading this know what i mean.
"Nobody dont like me" "No. Nobody likes you." "Nobody dont like me" "No. Nobody likes you." "Nobody dont like me" "No. Say 'Nobody likes me." "Nobody like you" "No. Nobody likes you." "Nobody dont like me or you" "No. Say nobody likes me" "Okay, Nobody don't likes you, mommy" And this is how you improve the self-esteem of your child, but not their grammar.
I feel like this "5 vowels" argument falls apart though because English does NOT have 5 vowels. It has 5 vowel LETTERS but a lot more vowel PHONEMES, similar to other European languages. English is non phonetic so those letters often do double duty.
Like my favourite sentence in German that I made up and it's only half a sentence: (e.g. Es besteht kein Zweifel), dass das das Das das *das* Das ist ist. Or rather: Es besteht kein Zweifel, dass dies jenes Das ist, welches das besagte Das ist.
The moment man devoured the fruit of knowledge, he sealed his fate... Entrusting his future to the cards, man clings to a dim hope. Yes, the arcana is the means by which all is revealed.
⚠ أحاديث ﻻتصح عن رمضان 🚫 (رمضان أوله رحمة، وأوسطه مغفرة، وآخره عتق من النار) 📚[ ضعيف الجامع: 2135 ] 🚫 (لو يعلم العباد ما في رمضان لتمنت أمتي أن تكون السنة كلها رمضان) 📚 [ ضعيف الترغيب والترهيب: 302 ] 🚫 (اللهم بارك لنا في رجب وشعبان وبلغنا رمضان) 📚[ ضعيف الجامع: 4395] 🚫 (من أفطر يوماً في رمضان في غير رخصة رخصها الله له لم يقض عنه صيام الدهر كله وإن صامه) 📚 [ ضعيف الجامع: 5462] 🚫 (من أدرك رمضان بمكة فصامه وقام منه ما تيسر كتب الله له مائة ألف شهر رمضان فيما سواه) 📚[ضعيف الترغيب: 1/294] 🚫 (إن شهر رمضان معلق بين السماء والأرض؛ لا يرفع إلا بزكاة الفطر) 📚 [ ضعيف الجامع: 1886] 🚫 (صوموا تصحوا) 📚 [ ضعيف الجامع: 3504 ] 🚫 (نوم الصائم عبادة) 📚[ ضعيف الجامع: 5972 ] 🚫 (قصة المرأتين اللتين وقعتا في الغيبة، فقال الرسول ﷺ : إن هاتين صامتا عما أحل الله وأفطرتا على ما حرّم الله عز وجل) 📚 [ الضعيفة: 519] 🚫 (أحب عبادي إلي أسرعهم فطراً) 📚[ الموسوعة في الأحاديث الضعيفة: 12/11] 🚫 (إن الجنة لتبخر وتزين من الحول إلى الحول لدخول شهر رمضان فتبرز الحور العين) 📚[ ضعيف الترغيب: 594] 🚫 (إن الله ينظر إلى تنافسكم فيه فأروا الله من أنفسكم خيراً) 📚 [ ضعيف الترغيب: 492 ] 🚫 (إن لله في كل ليلة من رمضان (600) ألف عتيق من النار فإذا كان آخر ليلة أعتق الله بعدد كل من مضى) 📚[ ضعيف الترغيب: 598 ] 🚫 (ذاكر الله في رمضان مغفور له وسائل الله فيه لا يخيب) 📚 [ ضعيف الترغيب: 600 ] 🚫 (الصائم في السفر كالمفطر في الحضر) 📚[ ضعيف الترغيب: 643 ] 🚫 (رمضان بالمدينة خير من ألف رمضان فيما سواها من البلدان) 📚[ ضعيف الترغيب: 1/382 ] 🚫 (إذا صمتم فاستاكوا بالغداة ولا تستاكوا بالعشي) 📚 [ السلسة الضعيفة: 401 ] 🚫 (من اعتكف عشراً في رمضان كان كحجتين وعمرتين) 📚 [ السلسلة الضعيفة: 518]
That's great but where can I find a list of these? Also you will notice the onomatopoeia for horse hooves is actually a pattern of four syllables with one sound repeated at least twice. Every language you mentioned followed this pattern.
This hasn’t aged well. I would argue with the claim that Chomsky is the father of modern linguistics. He is the originator of one linguistic theory, which has been very influential, arguably too influential. Recent computer models based on generalised neural networks have achieved a remarkable success in language production and translation. That a generalised model can do this is strong evidence against the idea of a detailed language model in the human brain. It is evidence that grammar is a feature of language, not the brain. Given how bad academic language tuition is, witness school and university teaching, I struggle to accept much of modern linguistic theory when it comes to second language acquisition.
your videos got me through my bachelor's degree 8 years ago! i've graduated with a master's degree three years ago. now i'm rewatching these videos to brush up on basics to prepare for my application for a phd. so basically, THANK YOU so much. linguistics forever. 🥰