Choosing a name is often a moment charged with emotion and meaning. What if the beauty of a name could be scientifically measured? A surprising study conducted by a British linguist claims that a name ...

In a world where names and places often challenge our linguistic skills, the recent news cycle has brought forth two significant entries into the list of the most difficult words to pronounce in 2025: ...

Ambiguous speech production is a common challenge for learners of a second language (L2), but identifying whether the problem ...

A recent study explores how Japanese learners of French produce ambiguous speech errors. Using a specialized assessment tool, ...

The Bhaderwahi language is spoken mainly in the Bhaderwah area of the Chenab Valley in Jammu and Kashmir. The area witnessed an extraordinary scholarly journey over the past century. Once an ...

Two new studies published in the journals Neuron00792-5) and Naturereveal how the human brain transforms a continuous stream of sound into distinct words. The findings identify a specific neural ...

Fluent English speakers often add sounds between words to link them together. When one word ends with a vowel sound, and the following word begins with a vowel sound, you might hear a subtle /j/ or /w ...

Eudex ([juːˈdɛks]) is a Soundex-esque phonetic reduction/hashing algorithm, providing locality sensitive "hashes" of words, based on the spelling and pronunciation. It is derived from the ...

It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...