Left-hemisphere (LH) superiority for speech perception is a fundamental neurocognitive aspect of language, and is particularly strong for consonant perception. Two key theoretical aspects of the LH ...

Amanda Miller sits facing an old woman in Upington, South Africa, one hand on a cylindrical probe that she holds underneath the woman’s chin. “Speak,” Miller says in the woman’s native language, N|uu, ...

Some Bantu languages spoken in southwestern Zambia and neighboring regions of Botswana, Namibia, and Angola are characterized by the presence of click consonants, whereas their closest linguistic ...

South Africa-born Gugwana Dlamini, who plays Rafiki in the Lion King musical which opens at the Liverpool Empire next month, is fluent in several African languages. One of these is an African "click" ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Click consonants are well known for lacking allophonic variation. This lack of variation has been attributed to the existence of articulatory ...

Travel far enough and often enough, and you'll pick up some phrases and local expressions to help you through your day, but there is another world to language that even the most worldly travelers ...