Most of us learnt that ‘a’ goes before consonants and ‘an’ before vowels – and most of us were only half-right. This Learning with TOI English Hack explains the real rule: it is not about letters, but ...

For over 150 years, neuroscientists have known that a small region in the left frontal lobe—Broca's area—plays a crucial role in speech production. Named after French physician Paul Broca, who ...

A Gen Z woman has gone viral after sharing her theory on what she calls the “Gen Alpha accent”—a way of speaking she’s noticed among younger kids. Vivian Peterson (@veeveeunn), 20, a full-time student ...

Now, a speech therapist is bringing another consideration to the forefront: pronunciation. Chloe Conrad, founder of Spunky Speech Therapy in San Diego, recently shared three names she knows she would ...

The place of articulation refers to where the articulators (teeth, tongue, lips or glottis) make contact in the vocal tract to create consonant sounds. There are eight places of articulation for ...

Abstract: Spectro-temporal dynamics of consonant-vowel (CV) transition regions are considered to provide robust cues related to articulation. In this work, we propose an objective measure of precise ...