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 ...

Humanity language is the result of some dramatic evolutionary changes over the last few million years, which have reshaped our old primate vocal organs into the more sophisticated organs we use today.

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, ...

The articulatory features that distinguish different vowel sounds are conventionally described along a two-dimensional coordinate system that naturally represents the position of the highest point of ...

A paralysed man has “spoken” three different vowel sounds using a voice synthesiser controlled by an implant deep in his brain. If more sounds can be added to the repertoire of brain signals the ...

A network of four spintronic oscillators can successfully be trained to recognize different spoken vowels, says a team of researchers at C2N and CNRS/Thales in France and AIST in Japan. Each of the ...

Sound doesn’t fossilize. Language doesn’t either. Even when writing systems have developed, they’ve represented full-fledged and functional languages. Rather than preserving the first baby steps ...

🛍️ The best Black Friday deals you can shop right now (updating) 🛍️ By Thomas R. Sawallis & Louis-Jean Boë/The Conversation Published Dec 16, 2019 8:30 PM EST Sound doesn’t fossilize. Language doesn ...