In most languages, including English, vowels that occur next to nasal consonants (m, n, and ng in English) are produced as slightly or entirely nasal. I saw this as phonetically interesting. In my ...

Sperm whales, which make clicking sounds to communicate, use different “vowels” in ways similar to human speech ...

image: A team of linguists from RUDN University established that a person's ability to accurately differentiate between vowel sounds of a foreign language correlates with the size of their vocabulary ...

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 ...

The study tested newborns on two sets of vowel sounds -- 17 native language sounds and 17 foreign language sounds, said Kuhl. The researchers tested the babies' interest in the vowel sounds based on ...