Last year, I wrote about how to say foreign names and places on the air. I offered tips and resources on correct pronunciation in any language. But recently I heard a piece about a Central American ...

Languages are either syllable-timed, where all the syllables in a word last for the same amount of time, even when syllables are stressed, or stress-timed, where stressed syllables are pronounced at ...

When we hear a sentence, or a line of poetry, our brains automatically transform the stream of sound into a sequence of syllables. But scientists haven't been sure exactly how the brain does this. Now ...