UC Berkeley associate professor of Hispanic and Romance linguistics Justin Davidson contributed to a study revealing where in the brain bilingual speakers store language-specific sounds. Davidson, ...

The Punjabi writing system is one that is not an alphabet nor a syllabary. The script consists of a primary graph that generally denotes a consonantal sound, and can be adjoined to by a secondary ...

When we listen to a foreign language, we may hear sounds which do not exist in our mother tongue, and may sound different from anything we have ever heard before. The first time we hear something new, ...

It is extremely difficult to convince teachers, teacher-trainers, textbook writers, parents among others that children who squeeze a system of sounds from thin air also have the capacity to learn the ...

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Barnard Shaw once told, “England and America are two countries separated by a common language.” “It [English] is the language”, Jesperson concludes, “of a grown up man having very little childish or ...