When adults speak a second language, you can oftentimes tell. Usually, it’s from what’s coming out of their mouth. But ...

Intonation is an integral part of communication for all speakers. But can sign languages have intonation? A new study shows that signers use their faces to create intonational ‘melodies’ just as ...

Robert P. Stockwell, J. Donald Bowen and I. Silva-Fuenzalida Spanish intonational structure is described in terms of three terminal junctures, three pitch phonemes, and three stress phonemes, with ...

Tonal languages are different from non-tonal languages because tonal languages are dependent on the emphasis and pronunciation, because how a word is said will affect its meaning. It is quite ...