Ambiguous speech production is a common challenge for learners of a second language (L2), but identifying whether the problem ...

A recent study explores how Japanese learners of French produce ambiguous speech errors. Using a specialized assessment tool, ...

Phonetics and speech science encompass the systematic study of the sounds produced by the human vocal apparatus and their subsequent transmission, perception and cognitive processing. Bridging the ...

PROFESSOR Jim Conroy raises important issues concerning the teaching of reading and he rightly includes the need to foster "a lifelong engagement with the written word" ("Reading skills damaged by ...

This paper presents results of a phonetic study of the vowel system of Paicî, an Austronesian language of central New Caledonia. The Paicî vowel system is of phonetic interest for both its three-way ...

Researchers analyzed the codas of approximately 60 sperm whales. The ways sperm whales communicate with each other may be more "complex" than scientists previously believed, with new research drawing ...

The phonetician Raymond Stetson wrote: ‘Speech is rather a set of movements made audible than a set of sounds produced by movements.’ There are various instruments to help us look at the vocal ...

The ways sperm whales communicate with each other may be more "complex" than scientists previously believed, with new research drawing similarities between the whale species' language and human ...