Last year Laura Giglio defended her thesis ‘Speaking in the Brain: How the brain produces and understands language’. Luckily she was happy to answer some questions about it.
By 2050, around 2.5 billion people worldwide are expected to be impacted by hearing loss. This projection is mainly driven by the expected population growth and ageing. Hearing loss can result in difficulty following conversations and social isolation. In this blog, we explore what’s really important in understanding spoken language, and speculate on sound solutions of the future!
Last year Cas Coopmans defended his thesis ‘Triangles in the brain: The role of hierarchical structure in language use’. Luckily he was happy to answer some questions about it.
In spoken language, it’s not only the words we say that matter, but also how we say them. When we speak, we constantly produce small changes in the tone of our voice, how loudly we speak, or when we decide to pause for a bit (the technical term for these aspects of speech is prosody). How we speak can convey how we feel about something, but it can also affect the meaning of our words. As we will see next, the same sentence can have different meanings, just by changing how we say it.
Dr. Marlou Rasenberg defended her thesis entitled ‘Mutual understanding from a multimodal and interactional perspective’. Luckily she was happy to answer some questions about it.
