In English, we have 5 (well, sometimes 6) vowel letters, but way more vowel sounds. That’s where the IPA can help us! We learn about vowels, those sounds you can sing with your mouth open ...

a University of Pennsylvania linguist and author of the new book Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change, says there is a shift of vowel sounds in the inland northern ...

You don’t (usually) get any phonetics in high school ... Some languages have rich collections of vowels (English has about 20 if you include the diphthongs and triphthongs), while others ...

while back vowel sounds convey large, slow, or dull characteristics. "The implications of phonetic symbolism for brand names are relatively straightforward," write Tina M. Lowrey and L.