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 ...

Welcome back to "Teaching in Room 9," our region's largest classroom. My name is Julia, I'm one of the second grade teachers at the Soulard School, in here for "Teaching in Room 9," this time around, ...

When we hear a sentence, or a line of poetry, our brains automatically transform the stream of sound into a sequence of syllables. But scientists haven't been sure exactly how the brain does this. Now ...

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 ...

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 ...

Does [a:] as in 'baa' sound more green or more red? And is [i:] as in 'beet' light or dark in color? Even though we perceive speech and color are perceived with different sensory organs, nearly ...

English bursts with consonants. We have words that string one after another, like angst, diphthong and catchphrase. But other languages keep more vowels and open sounds. And that variability might be ...

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 ...