The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving’ ...

Dive into the fascinating world of language with this humorous take on the International Phonetic Alphabet. Watch as ...

Discover the biology and evolution behind why humans naturally dislike bitter tastes, yet often grow to love foods like IPAs, ...

Abstract: In computer assisted pronunciation training (CAPT), robust automatic models are critical for pronunciation assessment and mispronunciation detection and diagnosis (MDD). In the modelling, ...

The course provides an introduction to English phonetics and intonation as well as insight into the description and comparison of varieties of English. We focus mainly on General British and General ...