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 ...

DENVER - You may not know it, but you took a course in linguistics as a baby. By listening to the talk around them, infants pick up sound patterns that help them understand the speech they hear, ...

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 ...

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 ...