It’s a question that has plagued English speakers for many decades: “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” To help with this, Greenwell, a College of Health and Human ...

As adults, it’s easy to forget how complicated speech really is, especially when you’re first learning it. Not only do small children have to figure out things like grammar and vocabulary but they’ve ...

In my last article I provided both travelers and expats with a couple of skills for learning survival Spanish. Tongue twisters (or trabalenguas) are phrases that use repetitive sounds and are found in ...

Tongue twisters are not just fun, they are speech improvement tools. They help improve clarity and cognitive processing. Classic examples like 'She sells seashells' and 'Peter Piper' target specific ...

Drawing from research presented at this year's Acoustical Society of America conference, psycholinguist Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel untangles tongue twisters to look at speech planning patterns, and ...

Dialect coach Erik Singer is back, this time to take a look at tongue twisters. We've all tried tongue twisters in our lives, and know how hard they can be! But "why" are they hard? What makes one ...

Some conversations are forgotten as soon as they are over, while other exchanges may leave lasting imprints. Researchers want to understand why and how listeners remember some spoken utterances more ...

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