Listen closely to those baboon calls. They may tell you a thing or two about human speech. Scientists who studied baboons’ wahoos, yaks, barks and other vocalizations have found evidence of five vowel ...

In most languages, including English, vowels that occur next to nasal consonants (m, n, and ng in English) are produced as slightly or entirely nasal. I saw this as phonetically interesting. In my ...

Anyone wondered why we just have 5 vowels in the english language ?<BR><BR>For instance: why isn't there a separate vowel for "e" as in "get" and "e" as in "eat" ? 5 vowels and 21 consonents thats a 1 ...

An acoustical analysis of the grunts, barks, wahoos, copulation calls, and yaks from baboons shows that, like people who use several vowels during speech, these nonhuman primates make five distinct ...