备战2023年新高考英语母题题源解密专题04 阅读理解（人类语音变化）.docxVIP

专题04 阅读理解（人类语音变化） 2023年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（新高考Ⅰ卷） Human speech contains more than 2,000 different sounds, from the common m and a to the rare clicks of some southern African languages. But why are certain sounds more common than others? A ground-breaking, five-year study shows that diet-related changes in human bite led to new speech sounds that are now found in half the worlds languages. More than 30 years ago, the scholar Charles Hockett noted that speech sounds called labiodentals, such as f and v, were more common in the languages of societies that ate softer foods. Now a team of researchers