When I speak to you, you hear sounds quite distinctive in the animal kingdom. My flexibility of sound production, powered by a single, drawn-out breath, is unusual. You hear me, identifying individual words with ease, even though I speak quickly.
One of the characteristics of the production of human language is the physiology of our throats, in which th…
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