One of the greatest difficulties in learning the English language is understanding that alphabet characters can change how ...

The researchers dubbed their catalog of sound combinations a “phonetic alphabet” for sperm whales, comparing variations in the whales’ click sequences to the production of different phonetic ...

What is a digraph? Well, there are plenty of them in English and it’s where two ‘written letters’ represent one phonetic sound. For example, in the word ‘phonetic’. the first two letters <ph> are ...

Learning a language is hard. Whether it’s pronunciation, accents, verb conjugation or definitions, it’s hard to wrap your ...

The following topics are covered in the course; phonetics (sounds/sound inventory of a language), phonology (how we understand and organize the sounds and patterns), morphology (word structure, ...

Articulation: The shaping of airflow to generate particular sound types (related to manner) Articulatory phonetics refers to the “aspects of phonetics which looks at how the sounds of speech are made ...

To round out our phonetic journey, here are a few consonant sounds you won’t have to second-guess. One sound you can be certain of is ‘Z’ (as long as it isn’t combined into a digraph or trigraph).

When children learn to talk, their ability to pronounce different sounds develops gradually. They cannot say all their sounds straight away and some take longer to develop than others. For parents ...