Los Angeles Times

Vowel sounds made by baboons show that the roots of human speech may go back 25 million years

Listen closely to those baboon calls. They may tell you a thing or two about human speech. Scientists who studied baboons’ wahoos, yaks, barks and other vocalizations have found evidence of five vowel ...
The Conversation

Examining how primates make vowel sounds pushes timeline for speech evolution back by 27 million years

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Yahoo Finance

Dolphin Mimics 4 Vowels: The Fundamental Sounds of all Human Languages

"DID A DOLPHIN JUST TRY TO SPEAK TO ME?" DUNNELLON, Fla., April 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "A,E,O,U"–these are the vowels the dolphin, Zeus, made that grabbed the attention of lead researcher Jack ...
PBS

Writers as Readers and the Long e Vowel Sound

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NPR

American Accent Undergoing Great Vowel Shift

Professor William Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist and author of the new book Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change, says there is a shift of vowel sounds ...