Kris Shaffer, David Lonowski and Jordan Pyle talk via Skype to Stephen Rodgers as they begin their summer-long analysis of the words and melodies of Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin. When most of us ...

Nawat Itsaragrisil and Fatima Bosch. If the names don’t ring a bell, let me make it clearer: Executive Director of the Miss Universe Organization and Miss Mexico 2025. It probably makes more sense now ...

In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

Two sides of sound: Phonetics studies the physical production and perception of speech sounds, while phonology examines how those sounds function and are patterned in a language. Three phonetics ...

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 ...

Horsegirl have deftly bridged the wide gulfs between archetypal and ingenious by making music that, while indebted to the sound of decades' past, never feels like pastiche. This isn't the sound 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 ...

We learn about 6 vowel letters and the numerous sounds we make when using them. In English, we have 5 (well, sometimes 6) vowel letters, but way more vowel sounds. That’s where the IPA can help us! We ...