In most languages, including English, vowels that occur next to nasal consonants (m, n, and ng in English) are produced as slightly or entirely nasal. I saw this as phonetically interesting. In my ...

A new computer model has learned to recognize vowel categories from multiple English and Japanese speakers without "knowing" the number of vowels it is looking for or having a complete list of sounds ...

Why Q Needs U. By Danny Bate. Blink Publishing; 336 pages; £14.99. T HE ALPHABET is easy to take for granted. Children ...

The English language is full of fascinating patterns, exceptions, and creative spellings that make it one of the most studied languages in the world. Among these linguistic wonders are words that ...

image: A team of linguists from RUDN University established that a person's ability to accurately differentiate between vowel sounds of a foreign language correlates with the size of their vocabulary ...

It is well known that adult US-English-speaking learners of French experience difficulties acquiring high /y/-/u/ and mid /œ/-/o/ front vs. back rounded vowel contrasts in French. This study examines ...