When adults speak a second language, you can oftentimes tell. Usually, it’s from what’s coming out of their mouth. But ...

Many well-known actors use accent reduction to cast more movie roles. And sometimes even the most attentive film-watchers ...

The concept of design patterns in software engineering was popularized in the early 1990s by the famous book "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by Erich Gamma, Richard ...

Banner patterns are items that apply a completely new design to a Minecraft banner. Some are rarer than others. To apply them to a banner, place a banner, dye and a pattern in the loom, and craft the ...

Summary: A large cross-linguistic study has revealed that human speech worldwide follows a universal rhythm, with intonation units appearing roughly every 1.6 seconds. These rhythmic chunks structure ...

Have you ever noticed that a natural conversation flows like a dance—pauses, emphases, and turns arriving just in time? A new study has discovered that this isn't just intuition; there is a biological ...

ABSTRACT: This study examines how Mandarin question intonation differentially modifies the fundamental frequency (F0) of syllables with inherent rising (T2) and falling (T4) lexical tones. By ...

1 School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China. 2 School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. This study examines ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...