The audible signals people can produce are not a series of crisp beeps like on a touch-tone phone. Speech is a river of — Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

The audible signals people can produce are not a series of crisp beeps like on a touch-tone phone. Speech is a river of — Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

The audible signals people can produce are not a series of crisp beeps like on a touch-tone phone. Speech is a river of — Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

The audible signals people can produce are not a series of crisp beeps like on a touch-tone phone. Speech is a river of — Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

The audible signals people can produce are not a series of crisp beeps like on a touch-tone phone. Speech is a river of — Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

The audible signals people can produce are not a series of crisp beeps like on a touch-tone phone. Speech is a river of breath, bent into hisses and hums by the soft flesh of the mouth and throat.

— Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

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