The sound of droplets striking water: How cowbirds control two sound sources in the syrinx to create 'liquid notes'

Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets ...
Chinook ObserverOpinion

Guest Column: If you can read this, thank a primary teacher

Learning to read, unlike speaking, walking, or understanding the world around us, is not something humans do naturally.
IFLScience

Vowel Sounds "Thought To Be Unique To Humans" Discovered In Sperm Whales For The First Time

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...
Edutopia

Adding Movement to Phonics Instruction

At Gilles-Sweet Elementary in Fairview Park, Ohio, kindergarten teacher Keri Laughlin combines movement and phonics to help her students build the foundational literacy skills they’ll need as readers.
BBC

Linking between vowel sounds

Fluent English speakers often add sounds between words to link them together. When one word ends with a vowel sound, and the following word begins with a vowel sound, you might hear a subtle /j/ or /w ...
WROC-TV

Back to Basics: Phonics returns to NYS classrooms

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — As students head back to school across New York State, classrooms are also going back to basics. Following a 2024 decision from the Board of Regents, later written into the ...
GitHub

Eudex: A blazingly fast phonetic reduction/hashing algorithm.

Eudex ([juːˈdɛks]) is a Soundex-esque phonetic reduction/hashing algorithm, providing locality sensitive "hashes" of words, based on the spelling and pronunciation. It is derived from the ...
rnz

Literacy experts say no problem with Māori words in book for learner readers

Literacy experts are challenging the Education Ministry's decision to discontinue a junior reading book that contains six Māori words. The ministry said it would not reprint 'At the Marae' in its ...
Post and Courier

SC is all in on the 'science of reading.' Some schools say its phonics approach makes a difference.

Tasked with spelling out the word "drop," the first grader at Logan Elementary School had instead written "drip" onto his laminated sheet with a dry-erase marker. But quickly realizing that spelling ...
The Conversation

How do children learn to read? This literacy expert says ‘there are as many ways as there are students’

K. Dara Hill does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Yahoo Finance

Dolphin Mimics 4 Vowels: The Fundamental Sounds of all Human Languages

"DID A DOLPHIN JUST TRY TO SPEAK TO ME?" DUNNELLON, Fla., April 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "A,E,O,U"–these are the vowels the dolphin, Zeus, made that grabbed the attention of lead researcher Jack ...