Recently, a trend has caught the attention of many linguists, especially those interested in sounds. This trend happens to be sound change, specifically, how it happens and why it happens. This ...

A team of researchers, including psycholinguist Jutta Mueller from the University of Vienna, has discovered that newborns are capable of learning complex sound sequences that follow language-like ...

Sound repetition allows us to memorize complex sounds in a very quick, effective and durable way. According to new research, this form of auditory learning is believed to occur in daily life to help ...

In world’s languages, scientists discover shared links between sound and meaning Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, right, shakes hands with Japanese runners on Aug. 19 at the Olympic Games in Rio de ...

Multi-instrumentalist Jennifer Baron talks about her new project, The Garment District (http://thegarmentdistrictmusic.com/), while in Pittsburgh with Station to ...

When a startup called Beyond Verbal began mapping the patterns and frequency of voices expressing various emotions, they noticed something odd: Love and hate looked almost identical. Yet despite the ...