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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever looked at a piano keyboard and wondered why the notes of an octave were divided up into seven white keys and five black ones? After all, the sounds that lie between one C and another ...

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 ...

🛍️ 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 ...

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 ...