Lateral consonants, particularly the various realisations of /l/, occupy a unique position in the study of speech sounds by combining complex articulatory gestures with distinct phonological functions ...

Linguistics is dedicated to examining all aspects of language and languages as instruments of communication and expression. It therefore deals with general linguistics, language description (phonetics ...

Every language has an organised sound system. Phonology is concerned with processes in the mind, determining the rules of a language and how we organise, study and form sounds in speech. We each have ...

Together, these findings provide a detailed map of how speech sounds such as consonants and vowels are represented in the brain well before they are even spoken and how they are strung together during ...

New research has found that mnemonic images and explicit sound contrasting help Japanese children learn more effectively the sounds of the English alphabet. New research by Professor Emmanuel Manalo ...

The notoriously difficult phonology of the Polish language has always caused much trouble and confusion for neighbouring nations. But what are the absolute hardest words? Germans look at Polish and ...

The lower air pressure at high altitudes may be a factor in why ejective consonants are more popular in languages spoken higher up. Sophie Bushwick reports The human voice is capable of forming a ...