Lateral consonants, particularly the various realisations of /l/, occupy a unique position in the study of speech sounds by combining complex articulatory gestures with distinct phonological functions ...

In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

The project aims to describe the uses of nasality, or passage of air through the nose during speech, in Indigenous Amazonian languages. Nearly all languages have nasal consonants such as “m” or “n”; ...

The study of the phonetics and phonology of voicing and consonant production investigates the intricate processes underlying speech sound generation and perception. Central to this field is the ...

The Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA) is a forum for original research in the fields of phonetic theory and description and their phonological, typological and broader ...