Scientists have found that a portion of the brain that handles decision-making also helps decipher different sounds. A front portion of the brain that handles tasks like decision-making also helps ...

Speech perception requires the rapid and effortless extraction of meaningful phonetic information from a highly variable acoustic signal. A powerful example of this phenomenon is categorical speech ...

Sometimes, teenagers make irritating noises. Now we know what those noises are called. Over at The Week, editor (and linguist) James Harbeck has penned an excellent piece titled, quite simply, ...

What is a digraph? Well, there are plenty of them in English and it’s where two ‘written letters’ represent one phonetic sound. For example, in the word ‘phonetic’. the first two letters <ph> are ...

More people are learning the basics of te reo Māori, including the correct pronunciation of Maori place names. (File photo)Jason Dorday / Stuff OPINION: In the last column reference was made to a book ...