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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the fourth of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the seventh of seven short ...

IF you will permit me to refer at this late date to Prof. Scripture's articles in NATURE of January 13 and 20 last on the nature of vowel sounds, I should like to emphasise the great service that the ...

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 ...

How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect, maybe ...

You may have noticed that the way Canadians speak is changing and the reason why words sound different these days is because linguists have confirmed we're going through the Canadian Vowel Shift.

Baboons make five distinct vowel-like sounds much like humans, according to new research which suggests language began to evolve about 25 million years ago, much earlier than previously thought. It ...