It all comes down to a false equivalency lost in translation. In Japanese, haiku structure traditionally follows a pattern of three lines with an alternating number of on, or sounds, in 5-7-5.On can ...

But the true marvel of Georgian lies in its atypical syllable structure, which is both long and full of sonority violations. This is due to the language’s morphology, ...

Neuroscientists have discovered how the listening brain scans speech to break it down into syllables. The findings provide for the first time a neural basis for the fundamental atoms of language ...

Some words can be pronounced with two different syllable structures. What’s more interesting than fighting about who’s right is understanding why these differences arise.

Neuroscientists discovered how the listening brain scans speech to break it down into syllables. ... then analyzed the data to identify neural patterns reflecting the syllabic structure of what they ...