Some English words are more euphonious than others, and some are more cacophonic. Here I discuss the latter, the ugliest English words, of which I have analysed 415 from a large number of published ...
A study in Pediatric Research found that preschoolers with higher physical fitness levels perform significantly better in ...
Some English words are more euphonious than others, and there are many lists of words that their collectors have labelled “the most beautiful words in English.” I have analysed 372 of these and have ...
Developmentally appropriate activities focused on foundational reading skills can help young children have fun while they ...
The insula, a deeper and less visible brain region, contributes to phonological retrieval–helping access the sounds that make up words. Using tools like functional magnetic resonance imaging ...
The insula, a deeper and less visible brain region, contributes to phonological retrieval–helping access the sounds that make up words. Using tools like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), ...
Nature Research Intelligence Topics enable transformational understanding and discovery in research by categorising any document into meaningful, accessible topics. Read this blog to understand ...
In doing so, we explore the role of the speaker's accent in auditory word recognition and whether native accents lead to a mismatch between the participants' phonological representation and the ...
Behavioral studies have demonstrated that access to lexical semantics of compound words is driven by the interaction between orthographic and phonological information. However, little is known about ...