The project’s goal is to create an American Sign Language (ASL) data resource that focuses on documenting visual prosody, which includes, for example, non-manual markers that convey meaning and ...

I've been intrigued by parrots, and intelligent birds in general, since I started hearing about Alex, an African Grey parrot trained in language skills. My friend Ken Kulosa has a green parrot named ...

Sun Studios, where Elvis Presley recorded “Mystery Train” in 1955. Photo by Kate Cauthen. Okay, so who still cares about the young Elvis and his Memphis-based Sun Records recordings? And why does ...

There are different branches of linguistics that deal with sounds and all of their unique aspects. One branch in particular, known as prosody, is the study of bigger speech sound units and syllables.

Once upon a midnight dreary, an English professor at Princeton sat in her office, musing over many volumes of forgotten lore about the right way to read a poem. There were handbooks, essays, letters ...

Brain circuits involved in prosody seem to operate on a mirror neuron system, according to neuroscientists. A new study also finds correlation between empathy and prosodic ability. A new study in the ...

When good readers read aloud, it sounds like music. The music of reading aloud is called reading prosody, or, in everyday language, reading with expression. Researchers looking at reading prosody ...

Our own David Yezzi, Executive Editor of The New Criterion, will be leading a class “On Prosody” this fall at the 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center. According to their online catalog, the study ...