Adults learning another language often tend to continue using the intonation of their native language. This causes them to ...

Before they even speak, infants become attuned to the sounds of the language(s) they hear, processing native phonetic contrasts more easily than nonnative ones. For example, between 6 to 8 mo and 10 ...

Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say researchers. That's because babies learn languages from rhythmic information, not phonetic ...

Nawat Itsaragrisil and Fatima Bosch.If the names don’t ring a bell, let me make it clearer: Executive Director of the Miss ...

The project aims to describe the uses of nasality, or passage of air through the nose during speech, in Indigenous Amazonian languages. Nearly all languages have nasal consonants such as “m” or “n”; ...

Learning English language through reading and writing in elementary classes is soon going to be history as most of the schools in the city are soon catching up with the trend of teaching the language ...

A young Aussie was left feeling 'dumb' after learning about the phonetic alphabet for the first time. Emily Brogan, from Brisbane, called the police to ask for an update on a bag that was stolen from ...

Bengaluru: Chris Jolly, the visionary founder and publisher of Jolly Learning, and creator of the globally acclaimed Jolly ...