Listen closely to those baboon calls. They may tell you a thing or two about human speech. Scientists who studied baboons’ wahoos, yaks, barks and other vocalizations have found evidence of five vowel ...

Welcome back to teaching in room nine our summertime edition. My name is Julia. I'm a second grade teacher at the Soulard school but here for teaching in room nine my lessons focus on phonemic ...

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"DID A DOLPHIN JUST TRY TO SPEAK TO ME?" DUNNELLON, Fla., April 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "A,E,O,U"–these are the vowels the dolphin, Zeus, made that grabbed the attention of lead researcher Jack ...

Would you drive a SUV called a Himmer? Phonetic symbolism refers to the notion that the sounds of words, apart from their assigned definition, convey meaning. A new article applies this theory to ...

Does [a:] as in 'baa' sound more green or more red? And is [i:] as in 'beet' light or dark in color? Even though we perceive speech and color are perceived with different sensory organs, nearly ...

Learn the simple English trick of the day to never confuse 'a' vs 'an' again – easy rule that works 100% of the time, even with tricky words like honest and university.

Yale linguistics professor Jason Shaw, together with Keio University professor Shigeto Kawahara, has determined that surprisal and entropy prolong the length of vowel sounds in Japanese. The paper, ...