How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect, maybe ...

This is the fifth of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the fourth of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the ...

Humans are obviously pretty special when it comes to language. One of our cleverest tricks is the ability to process the sounds of spoken language at high speed—even more remarkable when you consider ...

If you paid any attention at all in high school English, you probably remember iambic pentameter, most likely from reading Shakespeare, and perhaps even other meters like trochaic tetrameter (the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information American Speech is concerned principally with the English language in the Western Hemisphere, although articles dealing with ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information American Speech is concerned principally with the English language in the Western Hemisphere, although articles dealing with ...