The rules for determining syllable boundaries should be applied in the following order. From this order better generalizations can be made. The ordering goes from the more specific to the less ...

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 ...

The data quickly revealed that mSTG activity contained a discrete marker of individual syllables -- contradicting the dominant model in the field that had proposed that the brain sets up a continuous ...