US President Donald Trump sparked a language-related controversy last week. He commended his Liberian counterpart, Joseph Boakai, for speaking what he ...

With 50 states in the US it can be hard to remember all of them, and even harder to remember their pronunciations. A recent ...

Tongue twisters are not just fun, they are speech improvement tools. They help improve clarity and cognitive processing.

Discover the 20 U.S. state names that are commonly mispronounced, from Arkansas to Massachusetts. Learn the correct ...

On June 20, Vancouver city officials and members of the Musqueam Indian Band gathered in Kitsilano for the official renaming ...

The study found that the most commonly mispronounced state is Arkansas—and not just for Americans. The state also soared to the top of searches in two other major English-speaki ...

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 ...

The struggle to understand the phonetics of Chinese led to the development of rime tables and the theory of 36 initial consonants, which scholars believed could help reconstruct any syllable.

In this paper, the acoustic-phonetic characteristics of the American English stop consonants are investigated. Features studied in the literature are evaluated for their information content and new ...

Humans have become too accustomed to language. Our ears forget to listen to the musical and emotional intricacies holding words up. Horsegirl attempts to teach us this in its new album, “Phonetics On ...