Questions tagged [spoken-language]

I consider myself almost fluent in English, but have trouble understanding when the words are blended together. This includes for example noisy places, song lyrics, or accents. In Czech, I have no such problems. I'm also learning French, where I…

When listening to my 5-year-old son telling me a little story about dinosaurs, he used a lot of repetition in the following way: "The triceratops… the triceratops used his horns… the triceratops used his horns to fend off... the triceratops used…

In the IPA chart, there are some white areas with no text. These are where a sound can exist, but it has not been found in any known language. (The gray areas are where humans are incapable of making that sound.) I was looking for sounds to try, and…

The wiki entry for resonance lists 7 factors that contribute to it: chest larynx nasal cavity oral cavity pharynx sinuses trachea Given one’s base pitch production, I thought that the oral cavity is the only factor that we can move to affect…