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Silbo Gomero, the Whistle, Language, of the Canary Islands La Gomera is one of the Canary Islands situated in the Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of Africa.

This small volcanic island is mountainous, with steep rocky slopes and deep wooded ravines, rising to 1,487 meters at its highest peak.

It is also home to the best known of the world's whistle languages, a means of transmitting information over long distances which is perfectly adapted to the extreme terrain of the island.

This language, known as silbo or silbo gomero, from the Spanish word for whistle, is now shedding light on the language processing abilities of the human brain, according to scientists.

Researchers say that silbo activates parts of the brain normally associated with spoken language, suggesting that the brain is remarkably flexible in its ability to interpret sounds as language.

Science has developed the idea of brain areas that are dedicated to language, and we are starting to understand the scope of signals that can be recognized as language,

says David Carina, co-author of a recent study and associate professor of psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Silbo is a substitute for Spanish, with individual words recoded into whistles which have high and low frequency tones.

A whistler, or silbador, puts a finger in his or her mouth to increase the whistle's pitch, while the other hand can be cupped to adjust the direction of the sound.

There is much more ambiguity in the whistled signal than in the spoken signal, explains lead researcher Manuel Carreras, psychology professor at the University of La Laguna on the Canary Island of Tenerife.

Because whistled, words, can be hard to distinguish, silbadores rely on repetition, as well as awareness of context, to make themselves understood.

The silbadores of Gamera are traditionally shepherds and other isolated mountain folk, and their novel means of staying in touch allows them to communicate over distances of up to 10 kilometers.

Carreras explains that silbadores are able to pass a surprising amount of information via their whistles.

In daily life, they use whistles to communicate short commands, but any Spanish sentence could be whistled.

Silbo has proved particularly useful when fires have occurred on the island and rapid communication across large areas has been vital.

The study team used neuroimaging equipment to contrast the brain activity of silbadores while listening to whistled and spoken Spanish.

Results showed the left temporal lobe of the brain, which is usually associated with spoken language, was engaged during the processing of Silbo.

The researchers found that other key regions in the brain's frontal lobe also responded to the whistles, including those activated in response to sign language among deaf people.

When the experiments were repeated with non-whistlers, however, activation was observed in all areas of the brain.

Our results provide more evidence about the flexibility of human capacity for language in a variety of forms, Carina says.

These data suggest that left hemisphere language regions are uniquely adapted for communicative purposes, independent of the modality of signal.

The non-Silbo speakers were not recognizing Silbo as a language.

They had nothing to grab onto, so multiple areas of their brains were activated.

Carreras says the origins of Silbo Gomero remain obscure, but that indigenous canaries islanders, who were of North African origin, already had a whistled language when Spain conquered the volcanic islands in the 15th century.

Whistled languages survive today in Papua New Guinea, Mexico, Vietnam, Guyana, China, Nepal, Senegal, and a few mountainous pockets in Southern Europe.

There are thought to be as many as 70 whistled languages still in use, though only 12 have been described and studied scientifically.

This form of communication is an adaptation found among cultures where people are often isolated from each other, according to Julian Meyer, a researcher at the Institute of Human Sciences in Lyon, France.

They are mostly used in mountains or dense forests, he says.

Whistled languages are quite clearly defined and represent an original adaptation of the spoken language for the needs of isolated human groups.

But with modern communication technology now widely available, researchers say whistled languages like Silbo are threatened with extinction.

With dwindling numbers of Gomorran silbadores still left in the language, Canary's authorities are taking steps to try to ensure its survival.

Since 1999, Silbo Gomero has been taught in all of the island's elementary schools.

In addition, locals are seeking assistance from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO.

The local authorities are trying to get an award from the organization to declare Silbo Gomero as something that should be preserved for humanity, Carreras adds.

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本節課介紹

在本節課中，學習者將通過分析卡納里亞群島的獨特語言——Silbo Gomero，練習英語發音與表達。這種語言以口哨形式進行交流，適應了該島極端的地形環境，提供了一個獨特的聽說練習機會。學習者將有效提升對聲音作為語言的理解，並通過模仿口哨音調來提高自己的英語口語能力。

關鍵詞彙與短語

口哨語言 (Whistle language)
溝通 (Communication)
資訊 (Information)
訊號 (Signal)
適應 (Adaptation)
大腦活動 (Brain activity)
方言 (Dialect)
堅持 (Persevere)

練習技巧

在進行語言練習時，尤其是當涉及到像Silbo Gomero這樣的獨特表達時，使用影子跟讀(shadow speech)的技巧尤其重要。建議學習者先認真聽一段關於Silbo Gomero的音訊，可以是本段文字的朗讀或其他相關影片。然後嘗試跟隨原音模仿。

學習者應關注以下幾點以提高英語發音：

注意音調變化，練習不同頻率的聲音，以提高模仿準確性。
利用手勢和麵部表情來增強音調和情感，幫助自然表達。
對於較快的語速，可以選擇放慢播放速度，從而更好地捕捉到每一個聲音細節。

通過英語影子跟讀，你將不僅提升語音的清晰度，還能培養對不同語境的感知，以此不斷提升你的發音能力。

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	can be recognized · can be cupped · could be whistled
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	has developed · has proved · have been described
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	distances which is · whistles which have · brain, which is

什麼是跟讀法？

跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。

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本節課介紹

關鍵詞彙與短語

練習技巧

影片中的語法

什麼是跟讀法？