In a globalized world, where audio is moving at a higher rate than text, language should not be an obstacle. The use of ...

Of course, plenty of languages share words that have similar sounds because they’re either “descended” from the same original language (such as Spanish “hospital” and French “hopital,” both of which ...

Plato's dialogue Cratylus begins with a debate. Socrates is asked whether the sounds of words are simply arbitrary conventions, as Hermogenes suggests, or if sounds are reflective in some way of their ...

There isn’t just one way to sound like a scientist, or to sound like a scholar. Scientists and scholars come from a wide variety of backgrounds and speak in different ways, in different accents, ...

Teens’ brains can benefit from learning to make music, according to findings from a new study in Chicago. For more than a decade, Nina Kraus, the director of Northwestern University’s Auditory ...