Welcome back to teaching in room nine our summertime edition. My name is Julia. I'm a second grade teacher at the Soulard school but here for teaching in room nine my lessons focus on phonemic ...

Listen closely to those baboon calls. They may tell you a thing or two about human speech. Scientists who studied baboons’ wahoos, yaks, barks and other vocalizations have found evidence of five vowel ...

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Would you drive a SUV called a Himmer? Phonetic symbolism refers to the notion that the sounds of words, apart from their assigned definition, convey meaning. A new article applies this theory to ...

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Anna Scretching-Cole helps children learn about the short e vowel sounds. Learn about short e with Anna Scretching-Cole. The short e vowel sounds often appear in the middle of words like web and bed.

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An acoustical analysis of the grunts, barks, wahoos, copulation calls, and yaks from baboons shows that, like people who use several vowels during speech, these nonhuman primates make five distinct ...

IT has been known for some time that vowels are distinguished from one another mainly by the frequencies of the formants or regions of the auditory spectrum in which there is a comparatively large ...