NARRATOR: 'Y' is a bit unusual, because sometimes it acts as a consonant in a word, and sometimes it acts as a vowel. The letter 'y' changes colour from red, like the consonants, to blue ...

In a new publication in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, researchers in the Penn State Colleges of Health and Human Development and Medicine determined that vowel ...

Vowels occur at the peak of the syllable--the most sonorous part of the syllable. Glides immediately precede a vowel; they are less sonorous than the vowel they precede. Semivowels immediately follow ...

Some strong verbs take the same endings as weak verbs, but the spelling and the vowel sound change in the du and er/sie/es forms. The rest of the verb does not change at all. These changes are ...

This is how to make the command form from the MASU form of verbs. First, for the verbs that end with the vowel "E" in the syllable just before MASU, you change MASU to RO. For example ...