Somewhere in the deep water off Dominica, a sperm whale surfaces after a foraging dive and fires off a rapid burst of clicks.

On the surface, [these vocalizations] sound like this alien, ocean intelligence that has nothing to do with us,” says lead ...

Welcome back to teaching in room nine our summertime edition. My name is Julia. I'm a second grade teacher at the Soulard school but here for teaching in room nine my lessons focus on phonemic ...

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When we hear a sentence, or a line of poetry, our brains automatically transform the stream of sound into a sequence of syllables. But scientists haven't been sure exactly how the brain does this. Now ...

IT has been known for some time that vowels are distinguished from one another mainly by the frequencies of the formants or regions of the auditory spectrum in which there is a comparatively large ...

Does [a:] as in 'baa' sound more green or more red? And is [i:] as in 'beet' light or dark in color? Even though we perceive speech and color are perceived with different sensory organs, nearly ...

PROF. E. W. SCRIPTURE, in a letter published in NATURE of October 1, suggests that the profiles of the various vowel sounds—of which he gives examples—indicate that these sounds “cannot have been ...