July 2014 - American Pronunciation Coach

Babies Are Statistical Analysts, Processing Language Sounds

Posted onJuly 5, 2014July 21, 2015

This is an amazing TedTalk. I had thought (and hoped) that exposing babies to the sounds of second and third languages through video or radio might be a viable way to teach them to recognize the sounds of those languages, Read More …

The Birth of a Word, and What It Means for Pronunciation Teachers

Posted onJuly 3, 2014July 3, 2015

I teach pronunciation so I’m always interested in how speech and language develops in L1 and L2 (first languages and second languages). I just watched a wonderful video by Dr. Deb Roy, an MIT researcher, who studied his baby’s first Read More …