Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already ...

Little Star” in which the initial syllables are stressed, with “twin” in “twinkle,” “li” in “little,” and “star.” Before Whitmarsh’s research it had been settled theory that the earliest clear ...

But should a major decline occur, he continued, “heed these lines” from Rudyard Kipling’s classic poem “If,” circa 1895. “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ...

Moreover, partial nasality occurred exclusively in prosodic domain-initial position (i.e., initializing a stressed syllable and preceded by a pause) and never occurred when they initialized an ...

Why does this happen? It's really a question of efficiency. English words tend to have one or two syllables that are stressed. In this case, we say PRO-bab-ly, not pro-BAB-ly or pro-bab-LY.

Stressed words or syllables are said more forcefully – they can be louder, higher or longer and the vowel sound is clear. We can use stress to show what the most important words in the sentence are.

It’s because ris in charisma is the stress syllable, and so that’s where all the emphasis is when we say the word. It’s the most salient, as we would say in linguistics, like noticeable. I think for ...

Giuliana Ravaglia heard from the small migratory bird in Bologna. Eric Kimura penned this 5-7-5 syllable poem during a visit to see early blossoming cherry trees on the Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa ...