With their text-speak and their overuse of "like," kids these days are destroying the English language … right? Not so fast. According to a new study, teenagers actually dial back their use of ...

Researchers explore how anatomical variations in a speaker's vocal tract affect speech production. Using MRI, the team recorded the shape of the vocal tract for 41 speakers as the subjects produced a ...

Why do languages sound so different, when people across the world have roughly the same speech organs (mouth, lips, tongue and jaw)? Does the shape of our vocal tract explain some of the variation in ...

There will be no messing around in this corner today. This morning, we’re going to talk about figures of speech. We’ll start with metaphors and similes and then work into neat things like the ...

Death metal band logos often have a spiky look while romance novel titles often have a swirly script. The jaggedness or curviness of a font can be used to express an emotional tone. A new study finds ...