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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 ...

The mammals' mysterious clicks contain a stunning level of complexity, a new study shows. A group of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) swims together in the Indian Ocean. For years, researchers ...

Sound doesn’t fossilize. Language doesn’t either. Even when writing systems have developed, they’ve represented full-fledged and functional languages. Rather than preserving the first baby steps ...