A large study of 800 adults shows that pragmatic language skills—the ability to understand sarcasm, indirect requests, tone, ...

Intonation is an integral part of communication for all speakers. But can sign languages have intonation? A new study shows that signers use their faces to create intonational ‘melodies’ just as ...

A dog named Barack hangs out with Eötvös Loránd University’s Attila Andics in an fMRI scanner. (Credit: Enikő Kubinyi) Scientists have put dogs through brain scans to confirm what pet owners already ...

Tonal languages are different from non-tonal languages because tonal languages are dependent on the emphasis and pronunciation, because how a word is said will affect its meaning. It is quite ...

Robert P. Stockwell, J. Donald Bowen and I. Silva-Fuenzalida Spanish intonational structure is described in terms of three terminal junctures, three pitch phonemes, and three stress phonemes, with ...