The secret physics at the core of every syllable, starting with the first words we speak. Human language is an incredible thing: a combination of mouth sounds that we combine into words, sentences, ...

A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y. You might have learned it as a chant, a song, or a simple declaration, but this is how you learned the vowels of English. You may have wondered, why is Y so unsure of ...

Researchers found that the motion and configuration of a speaker's lips are key components of the information people gather when distinguishing vowels in speech. For all talkers, except perhaps the ...

According to the team, changing the human-based perception of timing was crucial to these findings. In humans, vowels are ...

The latest discovery is that elements of their vocals function in a way that’s fascinatingly similar to human vowels, making ...