Have your kids come home singing their ABCs to a familiar tune - but one that somehow sounds just a bit off? You're not imagining it: the alphabet song is changing. The original song most of us grew ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the use of simultaneous multisensory structured language instruction promoted better letter name and sound production, word reading, and word ...

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Just like in English, Spanish has its own sounds and ways to pronounce letters. Spanish is an exciting language to learn but there are a few exception sounds you need ...

IN ENGLISH, the object on your face that smells things is called a “nose”, and, if you are generously endowed, you might describe it as “big”. The prevailing belief among linguists had been that the ...

Where did words come from? The traditional view is that the relation between the sound of a word and its meaning is arbitrary. An alternative hypothesis, known as sound symbolism, holds that ...

In a poll of 110 Stanford undergrads, most admitted they'd changed the words in an academic essay to sound more intelligent by using complicated language. Chances are good they ended up making ...