All the langaugages employ different acoustic signal to encode their information or semantic. They can be categorized into segmental,e.g. consonatnt and vowel, and supra-segmental,e.g.tone and stress. So the linguists define nontonal languages, such as most Werstern languages and tonal languages, for example, Chinese, Vietnamese,Thai. However, the latter languages must use constant and vowel as well as tone. We cannot found a pure tone language or a pure stress langauge.
Crosspendantly, the listener could recognize and discriminate these sounds by its acoustic cues.In speech perception, the psycholinguist sumaries different cues and arrange them into a hireachy system(Liu & Samuel, 2004). In acoustic, any sound can be analyzed into frequency, wavelength, period, amplitude and velocity or speed. Tone is dominated by pitch's frenquecy.However, vowel and consonant are dominated by
Why do human being not use pitch or tone to communicate? This is a very intresting question. Can you image there was a group of people chat with each other like dophine in sea.
Sunday, 10 December 2006
Monday, 27 November 2006
Why did I set up this blog?
I am a final year PhD student in the University of Bristol now. I arrived in England about 3 years ago and wished to receive good training in psycholinguistics. It is my most favoriate job to become a scholar in some university and own my lab to test various assumptionsa dn theories. It is my anticipation to become a scholar in some universities and test various assumptions and theories in my own lab.
I once wrote a short story of The Memory in Lab. It was about a young boy who was often taken by his mother to a chemistry lab and sat in the front of a long bench. He learnt to observe different equippments on the shell and memorized various chemical pills in bottles. However, he was mostly keen on entering his mother's test-lab but his mother never let him in. This story was based on my real childhood's experience. Though my first degree was Chinese literature, I still perfer to become a scientist. I like data and try to make everything as simple as possible.
For me, writing is similar to encoding a programmer. Finally I will construct a world by my data as a programmer can run his script.
Meanwhile, I like reading English stories and wish to become an amateur writer in both Chinese and English. So I will introduce some English and Chinese story writers later. Currently most of my work concern with British politics and media. I call it "media complex" because I have some experiences in Chinese media and still try to trace this career's line. Pursuit this career. Recently I am reading Press Gang and maybe I could become someone in that book. I spend most of my time seeking my carrer in English media. So when you find me stuck got stuck or looked sort of bored, Don't worry, actually, I am deep in thinking, particularly thinking of what I have read in daytime and summarize them.
Therefore, I still want to extend my writing to some fictions and stories, not only media's report. But something in English.This is just a dream as Kafka described that I stay lonely in a room and keep writing. I think the room now is my mind.
So I have to answer the title question: I have spent too much time in Chinese writing and then this blog would provide me a space to think and write in English.
I once wrote a short story of The Memory in Lab. It was about a young boy who was often taken by his mother to a chemistry lab and sat in the front of a long bench. He learnt to observe different equippments on the shell and memorized various chemical pills in bottles. However, he was mostly keen on entering his mother's test-lab but his mother never let him in. This story was based on my real childhood's experience. Though my first degree was Chinese literature, I still perfer to become a scientist. I like data and try to make everything as simple as possible.
For me, writing is similar to encoding a programmer. Finally I will construct a world by my data as a programmer can run his script.
Meanwhile, I like reading English stories and wish to become an amateur writer in both Chinese and English. So I will introduce some English and Chinese story writers later. Currently most of my work concern with British politics and media. I call it "media complex" because I have some experiences in Chinese media and still try to trace this career's line. Pursuit this career. Recently I am reading Press Gang and maybe I could become someone in that book. I spend most of my time seeking my carrer in English media. So when you find me stuck got stuck or looked sort of bored, Don't worry, actually, I am deep in thinking, particularly thinking of what I have read in daytime and summarize them.
Therefore, I still want to extend my writing to some fictions and stories, not only media's report. But something in English.This is just a dream as Kafka described that I stay lonely in a room and keep writing. I think the room now is my mind.
So I have to answer the title question: I have spent too much time in Chinese writing and then this blog would provide me a space to think and write in English.
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