In most languages, including English, vowels that occur next to nasal consonants (m, n, and ng in English) are produced as slightly or entirely nasal. I saw this as phonetically interesting. In my ...

We learn about 6 vowel letters and the numerous sounds we make when using them. In English, we have 5 (well, sometimes 6) vowel letters, but way more vowel sounds. That’s where the IPA can help us! We ...

A new computer model has learned to recognize vowel categories from multiple English and Japanese speakers without "knowing" the number of vowels it is looking for or having a complete list of sounds ...

English is a funny language in that there is no one to one correspondence between spelling and pronunciation. The spelling of a word doesn’t always tell us how the word is to be pronounced. English ...

What is a digraph? Well, there are plenty of them in English and it’s where two ‘written letters’ represent one phonetic sound. For example, in the word ‘phonetic’. the first two letters <ph> are ...