Discover the longest English word without a vowel, Rhythm. Learn its meaning, origin, pronunciation, and examples of other ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Beginning phonetics students are taught that some varieties of American English have two contrasting reduced vowels, transcribed as [o] and [ƚ ...

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 ...

Welcome to the Vowels In America (VIA) research project, a joint effort by sociolinguists from the University of Nevada, Reno and the University of Oregon to better understand the relationship between ...

Explore how the schwa /ə/ (aka commA) and /ʌ/ (aka STRUT) sounds manifest across the English-speaking world, guided by John Wells's renowned work "Accents of English." This video examines various ...

a, e, i, o, u. Consonants are the rest of the letters in the alphabet: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y and z. The letter y is a bit ...