To us, speaking and listening to speech comes so naturally. Have you ever consciously thought about what processes are involved in this? This is exactly what Phonetics aims to do. It aims to give a ...

Phonation: The modification of airflow as it passes through the larynx (related to voicing). Articulation: The shaping of airflow to generate particular sound types (related to manner) Articulatory ...

For their second album, produced by Cate Le Bon, the New York-via-Chicago indie rockers adopt a spirit of linguistic playfulness and a newly pared-back sound. Phonetics On and On is a home-away ...

What sounds do you make when you’re stalled for words? And how well can you roll your ‘R’? The answers to questions like these often have a lot to do with your native tongue. What pronunciation ...

This paper examines the phonology and phonetics of rhotics in Modern Irish. Descriptions of the Old Irish language posit four distinct rhotic phonemes, differentiated along the axes fortis-lenis and ...

But the second Horsegirl album, “Phonetics On and On” (Matador), out Friday, is a departure from its predecessor, and finds the band drawing on a different and more obscure set of influences.

Download the 2016 ICPLA Confierence programme [1.91 mb - PDF]. It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 16th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA) Conference in ...

Online pronunciation training from the Goethe Institute can support you on your journey to speaking German better. During the training, you will work on the most important issues in German phonetics ...

Nora Cheng sings this lyric in the song “Information Content” but it comes through as a guiding principle across Horsegirl’s entire second album, released on February 14, Phonetics On and On.