Living in Antarctic isolation reshapes speech fast - shifting vowels, aligning accents, and creating new slang within months.

New research reveals sperm whale communication is more complex than thought. Instead of simple clicks, whales use vowel-like ...

Study reveals that sperm whales may “speak” using structured vowel patterns, bringing scientists closer to decoding their ...

Scientists have spent the last five years observing sperm whale communication and behaviors using tags, buoys and drones. They’ve finally begun to learn how whales use calls for communication.

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Dialect is often seen as a static feature of personality, but research shows that a person’s dialect (as well as the dialect itself) usually evolves over time. Scientists from the University of ...

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Do you sometimes wonder whether ‘data’ should be pronounced as dEYta or dAta? It could be the data we gather in the course of research or the one we buy from telecoms firms for internet purposes. Well ...

Vowels and diphthongs are examples of different linguistic elements that we use daily, whether we realize it. Other elements you might have heard of could include digraphs, monographs, or phonemes.