Don’t blame me if this week’s column is a bit technical. It’s by popular demand. No fewer than five readers have written to question the statement in my column of November 10 that “classical Hebrew ...

Tongue twisters are a brain-bending, mind-boggling, nail-biting test of your articulation skills. A cheeky alliteration here, a slippery consonant there, or even a tooth-chattering dental fricative ...

The Slavic affricate represented by /č/ is tacitly or explicitly assumed to be /t͡ʃ/ for all Slavic languages. In this paper we revise the affricate inventories of Polish and Czech, showing that the ...