For a long time, researchers believed that there would be obvious differences between the way that contrastive sounds, such as short and long vowels in Japanese, are pronounced.

UMD-affiliated computational linguists Kasia Hitczenko and Naomi Feldman have published groundbreaking research that examines how infants learn what the sounds of their native language are.

A mid-19th century Germanic word, ablaut refers to words that change form when a vowel is shifted. Reduplication originated in the late 16th century from the Latin word reduplicat, signifying ...

For a long time, researchers believed that there would be obvious differences between the way that contrastive sounds, such as short and long vowels in Japanese, are pronounced.