(CBS News) While we could goof off all day with animal antics, music and more, sometimes we need to throw in some learning here on The Feed. (Ugh! Seriously? Ohmahgawd!) Before you freak out, that ...

The following chart shows some of the International Phonetic Alphabet symbols and sounds they represent. Use it to decode the words found on your "Sound Communication" handout. The underlined portion ...

Kris Shaffer, David Lonowski and Jordan Pyle talk via Skype to Stephen Rodgers as they begin their summer-long analysis of the words and melodies of Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin. When most of us ...

Scientists have found that a portion of the brain that handles decision-making also helps decipher different sounds. A front portion of the brain that handles tasks like decision-making also helps ...

Speech perception requires the rapid and effortless extraction of meaningful phonetic information from a highly variable acoustic signal. A powerful example of this phenomenon is categorical speech ...

Phonetics and speech science encompass the systematic study of the sounds produced by the human vocal apparatus and their subsequent transmission, perception and cognitive processing. Bridging the ...

More people are learning the basics of te reo Māori, including the correct pronunciation of Maori place names. (File photo)Jason Dorday / Stuff OPINION: In the last column reference was made to a book ...