This article attempts to address the challenge of mother tongue influence on English pronunciation, to briefly explain the linguistic reasons, and to demonstrate how Linguistics provide solutions for ...

Brian Linebaugh from Berkeley spent his younger years learning Tamil. His passion for the language led him to produce a ...

We are revisiting the pronunciations of short and long vowel sounds  /r/ and /r:/, as we have in ‘chip’ and ‘cheap’.

Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong and NSW Minister for Multiculturalism Steve Kamper have formally responded to ...

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist and a mother of a child in San Diego public schools, I’ve seen California’s early ...

He also found Tamil’s phonology to be the most difficult. “The notion of short and long vowels doesn’t really exist in English. In Tamil, if you hold a vowel just a bit longer, you can get a ...

This episode will focus a lot on phonetics and phonology of slang ... it would have then already been part of the English lexicon. And by the time we had the great vowel shift happening, it would have ...