Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol. 33, No. 1 (June 2003), pp. 1-16 (16 pages) The vowels /i/ and /I/ are not contrastive before /r/ in American English, and the phonetics ...

The purpose of this article is to report results of an investigation into the production of a covert contrast by native speakers of Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish in the acquisition of the English ...

Participants were randomly asked to estimate the distance between NYC and one of the two cities, not knowing that they weren't actual places. The participants regularly predicted that Floon, N.Y., was ...

Nearly everyone associates certain colours with different vowel sounds, according to a new study. Research conducted by linguists found that most people have a similar idea of which colours and vowels ...

Would you drive a SUV called a Himmer? Phonetic symbolism refers to the notion that the sounds of words, apart from their assigned definition, convey meaning. A new article applies this theory to ...

A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y is not all you need to know about vowels. There's more to these workhorse members of our linguistics inventory than you might think. The most common vowel sound in ...

Excerpted from The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu by Dan Jurafsky. Out now from W.W. Norton & Company. Could the names of some foods make them sound heavier or lighter than others? This ...

A simple shift in a vowel’s sound can change the way people think and make decisions about objects – leading to a greater connection between a brand’s name and product features a business wants to ...

Aranan Tarih Aralığı: 2025-11-1 / 2025-12-01 Aranan Kelime: 2 phonetics and phonology 1 phonetics vs phonology vs pronunciation vs articulation 2 vowel vs consonant sounds segmentals 3 vowels and ...