Researchers point to “intonation units,” or IUs, as the hidden scaffolding of human conversation. These are stretches of ...

Rhythm may not come naturally to some people. A new study suggests those people might not be great talkers either. Scientists studied a group of high school students,and found those who were better at ...

Developmental language disorder (DLD) affects around two children in each class. It hinders their acquisition and use of ...

"I moved to Italy when I finished my bachelor of music, and I started to take more linguistic classes and to think about language in the brain, and music in the brain," she says. "What was happening ...

Sorry, I realize that phrasing was kind of atrocious and very definitely not grammatical, but, in my defense, I have the worst sense of rhythm on the planet ...

A new study led by Dr. Kateřina Chládková of the Faculty of Arts at Charles University reveals that adults can quickly tune in to the melodic and rhythmic features—known as prosody—of unfamiliar ...

From long experience with teaching undergraduates, I infer that high-school English teachers are instructing their poetry students to count syllables. I don’t know when this started; perhaps with the ...

CyberAgent-owned developer Craft Egg has revealed an English-language edition of its popular rhythm game BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! due to launch sometime in Spring 2018. Co-developer Bushiroad is ...

Reyna Gordon was an aspiring opera singer fresh out of college when she began contemplating the questions that would eventually define her career. "I moved to Italy when I finished my bachelor of ...

Research analyst Allison Aaron and Assistant Professor Reyna Gordon are studying how music and rhythm training could help children who struggle with language development. Their work is part of ...

Reyna Gordon was an aspiring opera singer fresh out of college when she began contemplating the questions that would eventually define her career. "I moved to Italy when I finished my bachelor of ...