English spelling is notoriously irregular. While some linguists - notably Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle - have argued that the spelling system of English is actually great (they called it “close to ...

Before they even speak, infants become attuned to the sounds of the language(s) they hear, processing native phonetic contrasts more easily than nonnative ones. For example, between 6 to 8 mo and 10 ...