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These electronic resources have been developed by the AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity, University College London, to accompany the booklet Voicebox. See the bottom of this page for information on obtaining this publication.
The references in brackets in the table below indicate the related activities in the Voicebox booklet. |
These resources
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resolution of at least 1280 x 1024 |
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PowerPoint: Introduction to Voicebox Language sets humans apart from all other animals, including other primates. This PowerPoint presentation sets the scene and poses some questions for class discussion. This includes an activity which demonstrates the surprisingly large number of vowel sounds in spoken English. |
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Drag-and-drop interactive (A1): Which dog is growling? Match the growling sound to the correct breed of dog. |
Which dog is growling? | Right
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.zip folder here,
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Drag-and-drop interactive (A1): Which person is talking? Match human speech sound to correct size human figure. |
Which person is talking? | Right
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Video (A1): Sounding big - the red deer way A video of Bambo, a captive red deer stag. |
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(A2): Vocal tract in motion |
Vocal tract in motion | Right click and use save target/link to
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Video (A3): The vibrating larynx This video shows how an endoscope is introduced through the nose, and then films the movement of the vocal folds when speaking. |
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Drag-and-drop interactive (A6): Comparing chimp and human skulls Attach 6 descriptive labels to each skull. |
Comparing chimp and human skulls | Right click and use save target/link to copy: .zip folder here,
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Drag-and-drop interactive (A6): Chimpanzees, humans, and human ancestors Attach 3 descriptors to each of 3 different skulls/species. |
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Software (X2): FaroSon Software that enables real time conversion of sound into a coloured pattern on screen representing loudness, pitch and timbre. Requires microphone input. |
FaroSon
program
[Available only in Internet Explorer] |
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See: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/faroson/ for instructions on how to use this software |
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Software (X3): Vocal tract simulator A simulation which allows user to select any of 6 vowel sounds, and see how the shape of the vocal tract changes (for a male, female or child) when making each sound. Requires loudspeaker for audible output. |
Vocal
tract simulator program
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copy: [file name: VTDEMO.exe] See: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/vtdemo/ for instructions on how to use this software |
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| Notes: Scientific research on the evolution of language - a time line | Scientific time line | Right click and use save target/link to
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