A new study finds that people hear familiar words as louder than nonsense words, even when both are equally loud. The results ...

Crystal Simone Smith’s work reminds us that art and poetry are not only something to be admired as beautiful, but can bear ...

A new study explains the strange pronunciation of ancient Greek words by tracing stress shifts in suffixes like "-es" and ...

Poetry can express thoughts and emotions in freeing and insightful ways that prose simply cannot. For those who have never ...

New research shows that when people listen to speech at different speeds, the auditory cortex does not adjust its timing but instead processes sound in a fixed time window.

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We count down the best songs from Weezy F. Baby, spanning everything from his early Cash Money days to his commercial peak in the 2000s.

You have 20 minutes of spare time, but the new episode of your favorite podcast is a few minutes longer. No problem; you can increase the listening ...

Vincent Nwosu is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His research interests include prosody, phonetics, verbal arts, and documentation of endangered African ...

KARS-4-KIDS…,” “We are farmers, bum ba dum bum bum bum bump” and one that really lives rent-free in my brain—”101.3 KDWBeeeeeee!” I lived in Minneapolis for years, and I can still sing that call sign ...

Researchers point to “intonation units,” or IUs, as the hidden scaffolding of human conversation. These are stretches of ...