Vocal Fry: A sonic feature of a diverse city #Acoustics23
From American Institute of Physics 20/12/23 Vocal fry has a bad reputation in American English. A subtype of creaky voice, a feature of speech that sounds gravelly and pulselike, this manner of speech is sometimes used to form judgment about the speaker. In many languages, the creaky tone changes the meaning of words, exhibited in […]
English language innovation: Have you heard about the “whom of which” trend?
From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 29/09/23 Back in the spring of 2022, professor of linguistics David Pesetsky was talking to an undergraduate class about relative clauses, which add information to sentences. For instance: “The senator, with whom we were speaking, is a policy expert.” Relative clauses often feature “who,” “which,” “that,” and so on. Before […]