Denise Herzing, a dolphin communication expert, told Science News that she objects to the word “vowel” out of concern that ...

According to the team, changing the human-based perception of timing was crucial to these findings. In humans, vowels are ...

Y ou might’ve heard we’re trying to talk to whales. It sounds crazy, but it’s not so far-fetched, as in recent years we’ve ...

The latest discovery is that elements of their vocals function in a way that’s fascinatingly similar to human vowels, making ...

In a paper just published in Open Mind, a journal, a group of researchers with the Cetacean Translation Initiative ( CETI ), ...

Scientists have spent the last five years observing sperm whale communication and behaviors using tags, buoys and drones. They’ve finally begun to learn how whales use calls for communication.

A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y. You might have learned it as a chant, a song, or a simple declaration, but this is how you learned the vowels of English. You may have wondered, why is Y so unsure of ...

The secret physics at the core of every syllable, starting with the first words we speak. Human language is an incredible thing: a combination of mouth sounds that we combine into words, sentences, ...

Living in Antarctic isolation reshapes speech fast - shifting vowels, aligning accents, and creating new slang within months.