A Finnish YouTube user might not know how to speak many languages, but she sure sounds like she can. In a video uploaded on Monday 19-year-old Sara mimics what different dialects sound like to her. As ...

TikTok user Diego Rivas has received millions of views for his videos that capture what different languages sound like to people who do not speak the language. “Gibberish”: Rivas, who uses the handle ...

IN ENGLISH, the object on your face that smells things is called a “nose”, and, if you are generously endowed, you might describe it as “big”. The prevailing belief among linguists had been that the ...

Toddlers are learning language skills earlier than expected and by the age of 18 months understand enough of the lexicon of their own language to recognize how speakers use sounds to convey meaning.

In most languages, including English, vowels that occur next to nasal consonants (m, n, and ng in English) are produced as slightly or entirely nasal. I saw this as phonetically interesting. In my ...

Sifting through two-thirds of the world’s languages, scientists have discovered a strange pattern: Words with the same meanings in different languages often seem to share the same sounds — even when ...

New research by neuroscientists revealed that a simple, earbud-like device that imperceptibly stimulates the brain could significantly improve the wearer's ability to learn the sounds of a new ...

Senior Lecturer, Applied Linguistics and English Language, Anglia Ruskin University It’s well known that JRR Tolkien wrote the Lord of the Rings cycle to create people to speak the languages he had ...

A new study comparing stroke survivors with healthy adults reveals that post-stroke language disorders stem not from slower ...