Last April, a linguistic study likened the spread of the sounds of language to the human gene pool, and used this information to suggest language arose once in Africa 10000 years ago. If only it were ...

Learning to read in most alphabetic orthographies requires not only the acquisition of simple grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs) but also the acquisition of context-sensitive GPCs, where ...

A phonemic analysis of non-weak-stressed syllables in the Peiping dialect is shown to yield three syllabic nuclei, three medials, and fifteen additional consonants. The problem of the 'palatal series' ...