Linguistics2 (IMAGE) West Virginia University Caption West Virginia University researchers Breann Tennyson, an undergraduate in communication sciences and disorders, Jonah Katz, associate professor of linguistics, and Taya Sullivan, a dual major in neuroscience and Spanish, test recording setups and room acoustics by inspecting waveforms and spectrograms of voices. It’s part of a National Science Foundation-funded study looking at how the pronunciation of certain consonants could change linguists’ understanding of how people learn to speak. Credit WVU Photo/Brian Persinger Usage Restrictions NONE License Original content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.