In 1985, the American linguist Charles Hockett proposed a radical idea during a lecture at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association: “f” and “v” sounds only became part of spoken ...

Researchers of a controversial new study believe that the shift of ancient humans’ diet from tough foods to softer ones helped develop their ability to pronounce “f” and “v” sounds. The range of ...

This is the second of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the second of eight other consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore ...