Recently, a trend has caught the attention of many linguists, especially those interested in sounds. This trend happens to be sound change, specifically, how it happens and why it happens. This ...

A team of researchers, including psycholinguist Jutta Mueller from the University of Vienna, has discovered that newborns are capable of learning complex sound sequences that follow language-like ...

Nick and Sally copy a sound pattern of buzzes and bells, to unlock a door. When a locked door plays a series of sounds, Nick and Sally try to repeat the sounds, to get the door to unlock. It works!