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 ...

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 ...

In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

Phonetics is all about studying the sounds we make when we talk. There are three main branches of this discipline: This is the study of the sound waves made by the human vocal organs for communication ...

Every writing system represents speech a little differently, and no system is completely faithful to how words are actually pronounced. For over a century, the International Phonetic Alphabet has ...