This matters because intonation (the rise and fall of speech that conveys emotion, emphasis, and intent) can flip meaning ...

Timo Schmidt, a 19-year-old German redhead who visited Killarney last year, is happy to tell the Irish visitors of a festival ...

Abstract: In spoken communication, intonation often conveys meaning of an utterance. Thus, incorrect intonation, typically made by second language (L2) learners, could result in miscommunication. We, ...

Many well-known actors use accent reduction to cast more movie roles. And sometimes even the most attentive film-watchers ...

This is the fifth of eight voiceless consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the fifth of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that ...

A new study found that non-autistic U.K. adults are less able to understand animations (representing specific words) ...

By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.

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This valuable study links psychological theories of chunking with a physiological implementation based on short-term synaptic plasticity and synaptic augmentation. The theoretical derivation for ...

Beth and Neil have a real conversation in easy English about the weather. Learn to talk about how the weather changes your plans Hello and welcome to Real Easy English from BBC Learning English. In ...