New research reveals vowel-like patterns inside sperm whale click messages, or codas, suggesting surprisingly rich ...
According to the team, changing the human-based perception of timing was crucial to these findings. In humans, vowels are ...
The latest discovery is that elements of their vocals function in a way that’s fascinatingly similar to human vowels, making ...
The Long Terawan Berawan system of vowel phonemes consists of one monophthong in the antepenult, schwa, and four monophthongs in the penult, i, ə, a, and u. However, the final syllable exhibits ten ...
Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 48, No. 2 (DECEMBER 2009), pp. 477-483 (7 pages) Alamblak is the easternmost of the Sepik Hill languages spoken in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Alamblak phonology ...
Living in Antarctic isolation reshapes speech fast - shifting vowels, aligning accents, and creating new slang within months.