In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

Phonetics and speech science encompass the systematic study of the sounds produced by the human vocal apparatus and their subsequent transmission, perception and cognitive processing. Bridging the ...

The Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA) is a forum for original research in the fields of phonetic theory and description and their phonological, typological and broader ...

Meow, miaou, yaong, nyan, näu: Humans say 'meow' in different ways, depending on what part of the world they're from, but do cats? This is the question researchers at Lund University in Sweden are ...

Acoustic phonetics is the study of the physical properties of speech and aims to analyse sound wave signals that occur within speech through varying frequencies, amplitudes and durations. One way we ...

The Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA) is a forum for original research in the fields of phonetic theory and description and their phonological, typological and broader ...

I received my PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin. Since my arrival at CSUS in 2002, I have taught all levels of Spanish language, Advanced Grammar, Spanish Phonetics, ...