In most languages, including English, vowels that occur next to nasal consonants (m, n, and ng in English) are produced as slightly or entirely nasal. I saw this as phonetically interesting. In my ...

A new computer model has learned to recognize vowel categories from multiple English and Japanese speakers without "knowing" the number of vowels it is looking for or having a complete list of sounds ...

Following Trager & Bloch (1941), I argue that diphthongs in English are short vowels followed by a glide, that is, a consonant (Szigetvári 2016). In the present paper, I bring further evidence for ...