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 ...

Excerpted from The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu by Dan Jurafsky. Out now from W.W. Norton & Company. Could the names of some foods make them sound heavier or lighter than others? This ...

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 ...

We learn about 6 vowel letters and the numerous sounds we make when using them. In English, we have 5 (well, sometimes 6) vowel letters, but way more vowel sounds. That’s where the IPA can help us! We ...

Let’s dig deep and find out why certain names simply fall out of fashion. When you hear names like Gladys or Herbert or Doris, you probably automatically think of old people, but why is that?

Aranan Tarih Aralığı: 2025-11-1 / 2025-12-01 Aranan Kelime: 2 phonetics and phonology 1 phonetics vs phonology vs pronunciation vs articulation 2 vowel vs consonant sounds segmentals 3 vowels and ...