According to the team, changing the human-based perception of timing was crucial to these findings. In humans, vowels are ...

In a paper just published in Open Mind, a journal, a group of researchers with the Cetacean Translation Initiative ( CETI ), ...

The latest discovery is that elements of their vocals function in a way that’s fascinatingly similar to human vowels, making ...

The secret physics at the core of every syllable, starting with the first words we speak. Human language is an incredible thing: a combination of mouth sounds that we combine into words, sentences, ...

A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y. You might have learned it as a chant, a song, or a simple declaration, but this is how you learned the vowels of English. You may have wondered, why is Y so unsure of ...

Scientists have spent the last five years observing sperm whale communication and behaviors using tags, buoys and drones. They’ve finally begun to learn how whales use calls for communication.

In a groundbreaking revelation, researchers have discovered that sperm whales communicate using vowel-like sounds, a ...

Scientists from Project CETI and the University of California at Berkeley have identified new structural elements in sperm ...

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Improvement in second-language (L2) perception has been posited to occur early in L2 learning when the L2 vocabulary is still small, whereas a large L2 vocabulary curtails perceptual learning (the ...