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 ...

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How to Watch Read, Write, ROAR! Read, Write, ROAR! is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

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, ...

An example of word-initial lengthening in Mojeño Trinitario, an Arawakan language spoken in the Amazon region of Bolivia. The word-initial /n/ (100ms) is significantly longer than the /n/ in the ...

Last week's challenge: Last week's challenge comes from listener Jim Bricker, of Wayland, Mass. Think of three common six-letter words that have vowels in the second and fifth positions. The last five ...