To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the fourth of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the seventh of seven short ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the first of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the fifth of five long vowel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...