A tiny brain blip during silent speech revealed the shocking truth: Your brain plans words by imagining sounds, not movements ...

Recent events, including an executive order on flag burning and comments and actions from elected and appointed officials with respect to comic material on broadcast television, have raised the ...

A speech impairment affects people who have problems speaking in a regular tone of voice or tempo. Speech impairments make it hard for people to communicate properly, and they can happen in both ...

Speech and language problems may make it hard for your child to understand and speak with others, or make the sounds of speech. They're common, affecting as many as one in 12 kids and teens in the U.S ...

In most cases, a flat, emotionless tone is a career killer; when Arnold Schwarzenegger uses it to deliver “I’ll be back” in “The Terminator,” it’s a genius character choice. Top-level actors ...

Music and speech are among the most frequent types of sounds we hear. But how do we identify what we think are differences between the two? An international team of researchers mapped out this process ...

Let's take a step back from the specific context of impeachment. In this post, we'd like to discuss a more foundational question: as a general matter, why do, or why should, different positions in the ...

Some conventional wisdom around how to succeed as a speaker is woefully outdated. As audience expectations regarding what makes a speaker’s presentation feel “authentic” continue to evolve, many ...

In the English language, direct and indirect speech are essential tools in both written and spoken communication. It enables individuals to express what they others have said with clarity and accuracy ...