HOW DO YOU FEEL about the sound of your own voice? You might wish you could break your habit of mumbling or that you sounded ...

Researchers point to “intonation units,” or IUs, as the hidden scaffolding of human conversation. These are stretches of ...

Psychologists and biologists have investigated whether voice pitch can influence how female faces are evaluated. Their conclusion: a higher voice does indeed influence how the corresponding face is ...

Student 1 is an unintelligible female speaker with a very limited phonetic repertoire, severe pitch and loudness problems and little residual hearing. During 12+ years of speech therapy prior to entry ...

There is enormous variability across the world's languages. Grammatical rules, phonetic categories, gestures, prosodic cues, and even the speed of languages differ wildly around the globe, making ...

Voice is one of the most distinct characteristics that differentiate individuals. It’s not just a medium of communication but also a reflection of one’s identity and sometimes, even health. When we ...

It is well known that mental state verbs are difficult to acquire, but little is known about the acquisition of mental state language encoded through intonation. Puerto Rican Spanish (PRS) has at ...