Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Neuroscientists are converging on a detailed picture of how the human brain carves continuous speech into words, drawing on ...

Phonemes are the building blocks of language. Represented by letters of the alphabet, they are the component sounds of spoken words. Most people automatically hear, for example, that the word "goat" ...

One of the biggest challenges of learning a new language is hearing and reproducing unfamiliar sounds. Often teachers focus on vocabulary and practicing simple sentences. But new research suggests ...

I do tweaking." When he begins work, he reads the script and figures out what the phonemes needed are; then he compares those with what the actor is familiar with. Once aware of where he has to bring ...