This #spectrograph is part of an #acoustics and #neuroscience based way to master Chinese #tones. The pitch display correlates very well with GR Tonal Spelling, a Chinese government #romanization promulgated in 1928 that is still used in Taiwan. Within rhyme groups, each tone has its own mnemonic spelling, a wonderful tool to help foreigners recognize and remember #Mandarin tones:
Linguistics As Science
In a recent post (https://steemit.com/science/@wentong-syhhae/can-we-squeeze-out-a-place-for-linguistics-in-the-steemstem-community), I pointed out that unlike the US, in Europe linguistics is accepted as a science.
Cognitive linguistics (http://www.tulane.edu/~howard/LangIdeo/Peeters/Peeters.html) has intimate connections with research on brain function (neuroscience).
Corpus linguistics makes extensive use of computational techniques to reach systematic conclusions about large bodies of text.
Articulatory phonetics focuses on the anatomy and physiology of the vocal tract, and acoustic phonetics makes extensive use of spectrography and mathematics (fourier transforms) to analyze sound waves.
Syntax and semantics make use of experimental techniques, as this explanation of child syntax makes clear (neurolinguistics):
Linguists Need a Steem Home
On a more personal note, as a former biology major, many of my language posts have a science aspect, as in my recent posts on the Chinese words for insects and other creepy-crawlies (sorry for the technical jargon ;-)
The way Steemit has evolved, there doesn't seem to be any clearcut home for linguistics and language learning posts. However, I think I have made a good case for linguistics as a niche within science (more than just biology, chemistry and physics), and thus language learning posts also deserve to receive the benefit of the doubt as a subniche of linguistics.
I've done this survey in the past, and the results are always depressingly the same. A look at today's trending tags shows that there is not even one single tag specifically devoted to language learning or linguistics.
Lack of Relevant Steem Tags
aceh, adventure, africa, altcoin, amazing, anarchy, animal, animalphotography, animals, anime, architecturalphotography, art, beautiful, beauty, beer, bescouted, beyondbitcoin, bitcoin, bitconnect, bitshares, blockchain, blog, btc, business, busy, bwphotocontest, cannabis, cars, castellano, cat, cats, celestialchallenge, cervantes, chainbb-general, charlesfuchs, christian-trail, christianity, christmas, cn, coffee, coinkorea, colorchallenge, colourfulphotography, comedy, community, conspiracy, contest, cooking, creative, creativity, crypto, crypto-news, cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, culture, curation, design, deutsch, dlive, dlive-broadcast, dmania, dog, dogs, drawing, dsound, dtube, education, english, entertainment, eos, esteem, ethereum, family, fashion, fiction, film, finance, fitness, flower, flowers, food, foodphotography, football, fr, free, freedom, freesteem, freewrite, fun, funny, game, games, gaming, gardening, giveaway, gold, goldenhourphotography, happy, health, help, history, homesteading, hot, howto, humor, ico, india, indonesia, inspiration, introduce, introducemyself, introduceyourself, introduction, investing, investment, ita, japanese, jjangjjangman, jokes, joy, kr, kr-event, kr-gazua, kr-newbie, kr-travel, kr-writing, ksi, landscapephotography, life, lifestyle, litecoin, lol, love, macrophotography, marijuana, markboss, market, meme, memechallenge, mining, minnowbooster, minnowsunite, minnowsupport, minnowsupportproject, money, monochromemonday, monomad, motivation, movie, movies, muksteem, music, myanmar, natural, nature, new, news, nigeria, norway, nsfw, openmic, painting, people, persian, philippines, philosophy, photo, photofeed, photography, photos, picture, poem, poetry, polish, politics, post, promo-steem, psychology, pt, quote, quotes, recipe, religion, resteem, review, ripple, ru, sbdtothemoon, science, sevendaybnwchallenge, sex, sexy, silver, smartphonephotography, song, space, spanish, spirituality, sport, sports, stach, steem, steem-network, steemchurch, steemdev, steemfest, steemgigs, steemit, steemit-health, steemiteducation, steemitphotochallenge, steemph, steemsilvergold, steemstem, steepshot, story, streetphotography, success, sunset, support, teamaustralia, teammalaysia, technology, test, thai, thealliance, tr, trading, travel, treetuesday, trending, trevonjb, trump, tutorial, untalented, upvote, usa, utopian-io, venezuela, video, vlog, walkwithme, welcome, whalepower, witness-category, world, writing, youtube, zappl
A Home for Globetrotters and Linguists
True, there are individual adjectives such as castellano, deutsch, english, japanese, polish and spanish, but these ambiguous tags could just as well be interpreted as referring to literature, culture or just people from said countries.
Because we either do a lot of traveling or have contact with people speaking languages other than our mother tongues, it is guaranteed that many Steemians are interested in language learning and linguistics. It therefore makes sense to carve out a small territory for this topic, so #steemstem and #science are probably the best home for us polyglots and language learners.