Vowels are the most musical and sonic elements of speech. Previous studies found non-arbitrary associations between vowel intrinsic pitch and musical pitch in senseless syllables. In songs containing ...

Vowel inventories and error patterns for three children with suspected developmental apraxia of speech (DAS) were analysed over a 3-year period using phonetic ...

Even though the fully automated pipeline has been shown to recover dialect differences, in practice, most users of DARLA depend on the semi-automated version with ...

Purpose The purpose of the study was to investigate vowel-specific intelligibility and acoustic patterns of individuals with different severities of dysarthria secondary to amyotrophic lateral ...

New research reveals sperm whale communication is more complex than thought. Instead of simple clicks, whales use vowel-like sounds. These patterns are deliberate and structured, similar to human ...

Have you ever wondered what are the possible consonant (C) and vowel (V) patterns of short words in the English language? Furthermore, with what frequency do these patterns occur? As an example, for ...

New research from UC Berkeley’s Linguistics Department, in collaboration with Project CETI, suggests that sperm whale communication may mirror the structure and complexity of human language far more ...

New research reveals a previously unknown dimension of sperm whale vocalizations, shedding light on their complex communication system. NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A groundbreaking study ...

Study reveals that sperm whales may “speak” using structured vowel patterns, bringing scientists closer to decoding their secret conversations. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley ...