How does our ability to respirate change from birth to older age

YOU COULD PICK ANY OF T6HESE TOPICS TO WRTE A two PAGE PAPER ON.

How does our ability to respirate change from birth to older age

 How does respiration change with different situations (speech, exercise,

breathing, laughing, etc.) or even different positions (laying down versus, upright)

 Examine another language and how vowels/consonants are articulated in the

vocal tract

 Could talk how the vocal folds change their shape to manipulate the fundamental

frequency

 How different gases impact the sound of your voice (thinking of things like

helium)

 You could talk about some of the future innovations such as using brain waves to

create speech (https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/04/414296/synthetic-speech-

generated-brain-recordings#:~:text=A%20state%2Dof%2Dthe%2D,%2C%20jaw

%2C%20tongue%20and%20larynx.)

 How spectrograms could be used clinically

 Could talk about how speech has changed over time (dialect, etc.)

 Could discuss how singers protect their vocal folds from damage

 Discuss restaurant trend of wanting to be loud to attract customers, but how this

is not helpful for speech perception

 Choose an animal and how it communicates (examples, birds (singing), bees

(dance))

 How do other animals hearing compare to humans

 How have researchers been able to take speech and turn it into text (or on the

flipside, how have they used the characteristics of speech to develop speech

recognition in phones such as Siri)