In most languages, including English, vowels that occur next to nasal consonants (m, n, and ng in English) are produced as slightly or entirely nasal. I saw this as phonetically interesting. In my ...

It is well known that adult US-English-speaking learners of French experience difficulties acquiring high /y/-/u/ and mid /œ/-/o/ front vs. back rounded vowel contrasts in French. This study examines ...

The French have gotten themselves into one of their recurrent linguistic lathers, this one over the changes in their spelling that will be taking effect in the fall. The changes were originally ...