From long experience with teaching undergraduates, I infer that high-school English teachers are instructing their poetry students to count syllables. I don’t know when this started; perhaps with the ...

Do you hear a regular beat da-DUM, da-DUM? This rhythm is very common in poetry and it even has a name: it’s called iambic. Poets often choose to write in this rhythm. Rhythm can help to strengthen ...

Neuroscientists at UC San Francisco 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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Well, in that case, I won't… No, I will use, uh… Oh, forget it. Have a look. It's a worm. If you want ...