THERE ARE at least two words with seven consecutive consonants: 'rhythms' and 'strychnine'. Miranda Blayney, Richmond, Surrey. UNSYNCHRONISED. B. N. Tattersall, Prestbury, Lancs. IF 'CONSONANT' is ...

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As Yale Teaching Fellow Erin Knapps helps her students sound out words, under the mentorship of veteran East Rock educator Jennifer Ryalls.

Speech consists of a continuous stream of acoustic signals, yet humans can segment words from each other with astonishing precision and speed. To find out how this is possible, a team of linguists has ...

A recent study indicates humans use mostly consonant sounds to identify words within the flow of speech. The study by researchers at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy, ...

How do you pronounce words that begin with lots of consonants? What is a consonant cluster? It's a word that has multiple consonant sounds together. Look at the consonants at the starts of these words ...

Distinguishing between words is one of the most difficult tasks in decoding spoken language. Yet humans do it effortlessly - even when languages do not seem to clearly mark where one word ends and the ...