The latest starry revival of Samuel Beckett’s play is on Broadway, and one thing is certain: Whatever you call its elusive ...

Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

Want to sound more natural when speaking English? In this lesson, you’ll learn how native speakers pronounce American English ...

There is one accent that is often rated as the most prestigious - Received Pronunciation. But what is RP and how did it come about? Lynda Mugglestone is a Professor of the History of English at the ...

Palantir cofounder and libertarian tech billionaire Peter Thiel has been giving a series of secret lectures about technology and religion, which centered on his theories about the antichrist — yes, ...

Diane Keaton was taken away from her Los Angeles home by ambulance on Saturday, and dispatch audio to the fire department revealed there was a “person down.” In audio from the call obtained by TMZ, ...

Team insiders Ryan Mink and Garrett Downing discuss Baltimore's 28-6 win on 'Thursday Night Football,' including a successful four-touchdown return for Lamar Jackson, a suddenly turnover-happy defense ...

Abstract: Objective: Speech brain-computer interfaces (speech BCIs), which convert brain signals into spoken words or sentences, have demonstrated great potential for high-performance BCI ...

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Abstract: Automatic pronunciation assessment is commonly trained and applied for a specific language, which is not practical in multi-lingual or low-resource scenarios. In this paper, we propose a ...

Did 17th-century immigrants to the 13 colonies have modern British accents? First, we need to figure out what a “British accent” is. Accents are pretty complicated things. Linguistically speaking, the ...

Presenter 1: I've found these new words, but I can't seem to read them. Presenter 2: If you can't decode them then they might be tricky words. 'n-o' isn't 'noh', it should be 'no'. Presenter 1: Ah ...