How Frank Guenther turns thoughts
into words
(September 2, 2011) For thousands of years humans have spoken.
Noam Chomsky and many other linguists argue that speech is what sets Homo
sapiens apart in the animal kingdom. “Speech,” wrote Aristotle, “is the
representation of the mind.”
It is a complex process, the
series of lightning-quick steps by which your thoughts form themselves into
words and travel from your brain, via the tongue, lips, vocal folds, and jaw
(together known as the articulators), to your listeners’ ears—and into their
own brains.