The latest discovery is that elements of their vocals function in a way that’s fascinatingly similar to human vowels, making ...

Y ou might’ve heard we’re trying to talk to whales. It sounds crazy, but it’s not so far-fetched, as in recent years we’ve ...

New research reveals vowel-like patterns inside sperm whale click messages, or codas, suggesting surprisingly rich ...

New research reveals sperm whale communication is more complex than thought. Instead of simple clicks, whales use vowel-like ...

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 ...

Baboons produce vocalizations comparable to vowels. This has been demonstrated using acoustic analyses of vocalizations coupled with an anatomical study of the tongue muscles and the modeling of the ...

Welcome back to teaching in room nine our summertime edition. My name is Julia. I'm a second grade teacher at the Soulard school but here for teaching in room nine my lessons focus on phonemic ...

This is the second of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the second of eight other consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore ...

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 ...

Most of us learnt that ‘a’ goes before consonants and ‘an’ before vowels – and most of us were only half-right. This Learning ...

WITH regard to the very interesting researches on vowel sounds by Prof. Scripture published in NATURE of January 13 (p. 632) and January 20 (p. 664), I beg to be permitted to state that the attempt of ...