Tongue twisters are a brain-bending, mind-boggling, nail-biting test of your articulation skills. A cheeky alliteration here, a slippery consonant there, or even a tooth-chattering dental fricative ...

The next time you find yourself wondering about the highest use of linguistics, or enduring the insulting grunts and groans of petulant adolescents and wondering how such noises could even be ...

Simple conversations can become an exercise in frustration when a loved one begins to lose hearing with age. Sarah Hargus Ferguson, PhD, associate professor of communications science and disorders, ...

Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol. 47, No. 3 (December 2017), pp. 321-348 (28 pages) This study investigated acoustic properties of the four-way contrast in Russian voiceless ...

The child-specific phenomenon of preferential neutralisation in initial position, which reverses a positional bias attested across adult grammars, represents a long-standing problem for formal models ...