Several widely accepted principles of Chaucerian pronunciation have recently been questioned and now need reaffirming. Percy G. Adams regularly ignores phonemic distinctions between ME stressed vowels ...

Spelling is a major pronunciation resource. If shown how to exploit it, learners can increase their oral intelligibility and expand their active, speaking vocabulary. To incorporate such outcomes as ...

When we hear a sentence, or a line of poetry, our brains automatically transform the stream of sound into a sequence of syllables. But scientists haven't been sure exactly how the brain does this. Now ...

We all know that English spelling is rarely a good guide to pronunciation. One big reason for this is the prevalence of schwa in the spoken language. That's why dictionaries and other written guides ...