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 ...

How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect, maybe ...

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This is the fifth of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the fourth of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the ...

Professor William Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist and author of the new book Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change, says there is a shift of vowel sounds ...

WITH regard to the very interesting researches on vowel sounds by Prof. Scripture published in NATURE of January 13 (p. 632) and January 20 (p. 664), I beg to be permitted to state that the attempt of ...

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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 ...

Scientists have shown that orangutan call signals believed to be closest to the precursors to human language, travel through forest over long distances without losing their meaning. This throws into ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The paper is released for public view weeks after Google announced its AI model, DolphinGemma, which is set to revolutionize dolphin communication Getty Research reveals that dolphins can mimic human ...