This is part 1 of a series I plan on updating. It will examine aspects of language such as phonetics, grammar and orthography using ancient languages, which are mysterious and fun to reconstruct. If ...

Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA. The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. Many languages exploit a short vs. long lexical ...

We learn about 6 vowel letters and the numerous sounds we make when using them. In English, we have 5 (well, sometimes 6) vowel letters, but way more vowel sounds. That’s where the IPA can help us! We ...

ABSTRACT: This Teaching English as the target second language involves several considerations which have to do with both the source language of speakers and the kind of training these students go ...

This paper presents results of a phonetic study of the vowel system of Paicî, an Austronesian language of central New Caledonia. The Paicî vowel system is of phonetic interest for both its three-way ...

This study investigated how coda voicing contrast in English would be phonetically encoded in the temporal vs. spectral dimension of the preceding vowel (in vowel duration vs. F1/F2) by Korean L2 ...

When speaking to infants, parents typically use infant-directed speech, a speech register that in several aspects differs from that directed to adults. Vowel hyperarticulation, that is, extreme ...