Sometimes word stress can change the meaning of the word completely. For example, record. If you stress the first syllable ( ...

Do you say car-a-mel or car-mel? Is your “fire” closer to fah-yer or fayr? There is a group of words in English that can be pronounced with two different syllable structures, depending on dialect, ...

Dyslexia is not only a problem related to reading; dyslexic children also display impaired prosodic processing—in other words, they struggle to detect stressed syllables. A team of Spanish researchers ...

If you say the same set of words over and over, it can start to sound like a song. This can happen with random sounds too, which are perceived as having more of a song-like quality than if the ...

With his sixth book "The Fish and the Not Fish," Peter Markus wanted write a book that was the first of its kind. So Markus, 48, of Trenton, conceived the idea of "Fish" (Dzanc Books $14.95), a book ...

How we respond to others' mistakes can hurt or strengthen our relationships. Source: Jared_1103/pixabay Psychologists define the fundamental attribution error as our ...

Do you say car-a-mel or car-mel? Is your "fire" closer to fah-yer or fayr? There is a group of words in English that can be pronounced with two different syllable structures, depending on dialect, ...