Whether music and language evolved independently of each other or whether both evolved from a common precursor remains a hotly debated topic. We here emphasize the role of vowels in the language-music ...

1 Department of Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom 2 Linguistics Department, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States Nasal ...

Humans are obviously pretty special when it comes to language. One of our cleverest tricks is the ability to process the sounds of spoken language at high speed—even more remarkable when you consider ...

(By Roy Williams) According to cognitive neuroscientists, the most important gift of the human race is our ability to attach complex meanings to sounds. The written language was developed only to make ...

As the days march quickly toward the end of the month, we as a culture are compelled to unfurl the effect of Black Music and its tenaciousness stored in the belly of the hum. One can imagine what ...