The secret physics at the core of every syllable, starting with the first words we speak. Human language is an incredible thing: a combination of mouth sounds that we combine into words, sentences, ...

My little girl was doing her English homework the other day, diligently going through the vowel sequence. "a,e,i,o,u," she gets to the end, adding, "and sometimes 'y' ". I corrected her: " Sometimes ...