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 ...

(CBS News) While we could goof off all day with animal antics, music and more, sometimes we need to throw in some learning here on The Feed. (Ugh! Seriously? Ohmahgawd!) Before you freak out, that ...

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 ...

If you're having a bad day, you may want to stay away from listening to commercials for Lululemon or Coca Cola. Or from any retailer or merchandise whose name bears a similarly repetitive phonetic ...

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 ...

Parents should use nursery rhymes and sing-song speech to help young babies learn language, according to experts. The slow, rising and falling rhythm of nursery rhymes like Humpty Dumpty, much like ...

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 ...