Intonation is an integral part of communication for all speakers. But can sign languages have intonation? A new study shows that signers use their faces to create intonational ‘melodies’ just as ...
Have you ever noticed that a natural conversation flows like a dance—pauses, emphases, and turns arriving just in time? A new study has discovered that this isn't just intuition; there is a biological ...
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 ...
A dog named Barack hangs out with Eötvös Loránd University’s Attila Andics in an fMRI scanner. (Credit: Enikő Kubinyi) Scientists have put dogs through brain scans to confirm what pet owners already ...
Robert P. Stockwell, J. Donald Bowen and I. Silva-Fuenzalida Spanish intonational structure is described in terms of three terminal junctures, three pitch phonemes, and three stress phonemes, with ...
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