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 ...
As you watch your children open their Christmas presents this morning, you might be pondering these linguistic questions: Why do the boxes on toys always read “SOME assembly required,” even though you ...
Representing the guttural consonant in “Hanukah,” known to linguists as a “velar fricative” because it is produced with the help of the velum or soft palate at the back of the mouth, is a problem in ...
THE Dialect Blog, which I discovered today (thanks to Language Hat), speculates on English-speaking cities and the disappearance of "th" sounds in them. Many people notice the characteristic New York ...