Researchers analyzed the codas of approximately 60 sperm whales. The ways sperm whales communicate with each other may be more "complex" than scientists previously believed, with new research drawing ...

Phonetics and speech science encompass the systematic study of the sounds produced by the human vocal apparatus and their subsequent transmission, perception and cognitive processing. Bridging the ...

The phonetician Raymond Stetson wrote: ‘Speech is rather a set of movements made audible than a set of sounds produced by movements.’ There are various instruments to help us look at the vocal ...

Language, a journal of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), has appeared continuously since 1925 (4 issues per year). It publishes scholarly articles that report on original research covering the ...

This paper presents results of a phonetic study of the vowel system of Paicî, an Austronesian language of central New Caledonia. The Paicî vowel system is of phonetic interest for both its three-way ...

The ways sperm whales communicate with each other may be more "complex" than scientists previously believed, with new research drawing similarities between the whale species' language and human ...