1. ARTICULATORY PHONETICS The production of speech sounds

2. The Primate origins of human vocalization

3. Design Features of Human Language FeatureHuman LanguagePrimate Calls Role of learningHeavy, essentialLight, non-essential Number of callsOpenClosed IntentionalityHeavyQuestionable EmotivityLowHigh Role of genesOnly in capacityMessages programmed ImmediacyOften (or usually) displacedGenerally required Structure of signalsHierarchically organizedNo internal organization.

4. Three required physical devices The brain endows us with the capacity for language The ear receives sounds The articulatory apparatus produces sounds

5. Evolution of human cerebral capacity (Note: habilis is now called Homo)

6. Human brain

7. Human articulatory apparatus

8. English consonant chart

9. English vowel chart

10. Mandarin consonants

11. Mandarin vowels