Consider yourself an expert when it comes to telecommunications methods, alphabets, or other obscure—but still widely used in many professions—ways of communication? Then you’ll want to test your ...

Welcome to Praat! Praat is a speech analysis tool used for doing phonetics by computer. Praat can analyse, synthesize, and manipulate speech, and create high-quality pictures for your publications.

Jeffrey McQuillan claims that encouraging phonics instruction will be a “train wreck” in California (Letters, Oct. 3). Yet his main piece of evidence, a 2020 analysis, is wanting. Aside from some ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Tasked with spelling out the word "drop," the first grader at Logan Elementary School had instead written "drip" onto his laminated sheet with a dry-erase marker. But quickly realizing that spelling ...

This carticle was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A bill that could reshape literacy education in California elementary schools cleared a major hurdle in the ...

Humans have become too accustomed to language. Our ears forget to listen to the musical and emotional intricacies holding words up. Horsegirl attempts to teach us this in its new album, “Phonetics On ...

For their second album, produced by Cate Le Bon, the New York-via-Chicago indie rockers adopt a spirit of linguistic playfulness and a newly pared-back sound. Phonetics On and On is a ...

For a band still in their early days, Horsegirl has already garnered plenty of attention — much of it, for better or for worse, centered on their youth. The trio’s 2022 breakout album Versions of ...

On their second album, the Chicago band strip back the layers – sonically and lyrically – as they continue to discover their own sound and voice For this record, Horsegirl took inspiration from an ...