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 ...

We tend to associate certain vowel sounds like "E"s and "I"s with light objects while "O"s and "U"s suggest heavier things. Could there be some evolutionary reason for this?

Baboons make five distinct vowel-like sounds much like humans, according to new research which suggests language began to evolve about 25 million years ago, much earlier than previously thought ...

Is the decline of the vowel a sign that language is evolving? Consonant-mad brands are everywhere and the more often vowels are dropped, the more people get used to it and make adjustments to ...

As one studies the Greek language, he learns even more, such as the ancient Greek wish of a mother to her son containing only vowels.

But although you'd never guess it to look at the baby-faced 35-year-old, Bök is actually a deeply strange creature, a logophilic Sisyphus driven by an almost unwholesome love of the language. He ...

Long vowels in the language are written out using double letters. I have never seen this specific combination before, which is why I find it so fascinating. Another aspect of Jingulu vowels that ...

Instead, we see that sounds are grouped according to the way that our language carves up the vowel space: a few blue spots and then suddenly a red one, with no transition of blue-purple-red.

We also used large language databases to collect thousands of words from those same languages. Then we statistically compared the proportions of different vowels in emotional interjections to ...