When adults speak a second language, you can oftentimes tell. Usually, it’s from what’s coming out of their mouth. But ...

A well-known British linguist came to New York to give a lecture on the double negative, an expression in which two negatives add up to a positive, such as, “He’s not unlike his sister.” In his ...

Basically a study saying they tracked intonation units across languages that occurs every 1.6 seconds that help track meaning, taking turns, etc. My thought on reading this is that it seems to operate ...

Tonal languages are different from non-tonal languages because tonal languages are dependent on the emphasis and pronunciation, because how a word is said will affect its meaning. It is quite ...

This paper reports on an acoustic analysis of the intonational patterns of declarative questions and wh-questions produced by a group of young adults residing in a rural town of south-central Spain.