“What’s in a name?” I always ask myself, over and over and over again. Names always seem to be a topic on my mind. But I ...

Have you ever consciously thought about what processes are involved in this? This is exactly what Phonetics aims to do. It aims to give a “systematic, conscious consideration of how speech sounds are ...

Horsegirl have returned with their sophomore album with a new approach three years after the release of their debut.

But the second Horsegirl album, “Phonetics On and On” (Matador), out Friday, is a departure from its predecessor, and finds the band drawing on a different and more obscure set of influences.

What sounds do you make when you’re stalled for words? And how well can you roll your ‘R’? The answers to questions like these often have a lot to do with your native tongue. What pronunciation ...

For a band still in their early days, Horsegirl has already garnered plenty of attention — much of it, for better or for worse, centered on their youth. The trio’s 2022 breakout album Versions ...

This paper examines the phonology and phonetics of rhotics in Modern Irish. Descriptions of the Old Irish language posit four distinct rhotic phonemes, differentiated along the axes fortis-lenis and ...

Download the 2016 ICPLA Confierence programme [1.91 mb - PDF]. It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 16th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA) Conference in ...

During the training, you will work on the most important issues in German phonetics and improve your individual pronunciation at different difficulty levels. All with complete flexibility – you decide ...

The course covers four areas that are traditionally taken to constitute phonetics — the scientific study of speech: speech production, phonetic transcription, acoustics of speech, and speech ...

This method has been extensively used at UCLA. When we begin to analyse the frequencies of the sounds we produce, we’re getting out of articulatory phonetics and into acoustic phonetics. Acoustic ...