Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Speech and Language Processing

Master's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: languages
Qualification: MSc
Kind of studies: part-time studies
Master of Science (MSc)
University website: www.ed.ac.uk
Language
Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.
Speech
Speech is the vocalized form of communication used by humans and some animals, which is based upon the syntactic combination of items drawn from the lexicon. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units (phonemes). These vocabularies, the syntax that structures them, and their sets of speech sound units differ, creating many thousands of different, and mutually unintelligible, human languages. The vocal abilities that enable humans to produce speech also enable them to sing.
Language
Many languages fly around the world
producing sparks when they collide
sometimes of hate
sometimes of love
Bei Dao, "Language", in The August Sleepwalker, trans. Bonnie S. McDougall (New York: New Directions, 1990), p. 121
Speech
Ils ne se servent de la pensée que pour autoriser leurs injustices, et emploient les paroles que pour déguiser leurs pensées.
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Language
Language is fossil poetry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, The Poet.
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