Neuroscientists at UC San Francisco have discovered how the listening brain scans speech to break it down into syllables. The findings provide for the first time a neural basis for the fundamental ...

Q. For decades I have used the word “preventive,” as in “preventive maintenance.” Suddenly I hear the word changed to “preventative.” Both words seem to mean the same thing, so why would both be ...

Languages are either syllable-timed, where all the syllables in a word last for the same amount of time, even when syllables are stressed, or stress-timed, where stressed syllables are pronounced at ...