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

The prominent formants are observed in the short-term magnitude spectra (ST-MS) of vowels. Consequently, the variance of the ST-MS is relatively more for the vowels than other sounds. In the presented ...

The consonant and transition regions around the vowel onset point hear important contextual cues for distinguishing between different classes of consonant vowel units. It is important to model these ...

People who criticise mispronunciations are often guilty of snobbery towards regional dialects, a top linguist has claimed. In response to a debate among Telegraph readers, Dr Amanda Cole, a linguist ...