British football terrace culture has been blended with traditional Japanese literature by a Wolverhampton writer who has launched his first book. Matt Eccles has released his cheekily named book, Who ...

This exploratory study examines the distribution of word syllable lengths in contemporary Modern Chinese by analyzing frequency data from four sources: Ni Kuang's novel Tianren, a Mandarin Corner ...

Open annotations (there are currently 0 annotations on this page). Imagine listening to a language you don't know. When does one word end, and another begin? Human infants face a similar challenge, ...

All human languages follow the same pattern: The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common word, four times as often as the ...

Humpback whale songs have statistical patterns in their structure that are remarkably similar to those seen in human language. While this doesn’t mean the songs convey complex meanings like our ...

This paper presents an overview of the authors' recent findings concerned with the rhythmic structures typical of the Chinese text. The proportion of disyllabic and trisyllabic words is shown, ...

Haiku poetry is a three-line poem with a syllable pattern of five-seven-five. The art of haiku is its brevity and ability to express deep insights or emotions through the simplest observations. To ...

Have you ever wondered about the power of three-syllable words? These linguistic gems are more than just a mouthful; they’re essential building blocks of eloquent communication. Whether you’re a ...

Summary: New research shows that newborns can detect complex sound patterns that follow non-adjacent, language-like rules, suggesting that the ability to process such sequences is innate. Using ...

This study investigates the role of statistical learning in the learning of lexical tones by non-tone language speakers. Over two experiments, participants were exposed to tone-syllable combinations ...