Infants raised in homes where they hear a single language, but spoken with different accents, recognize words dramatically differently at about 12 months of age than their age-matched peers exposed to ...

‘Very specific differences in language, dialect and accents have emerged over time, and that's a fascinating side of language evolution.’ By Laura Baisas Published Nov 19, 2024 7:01 PM EST Deposit ...

Google has a track record of patenting some pretty wacky tech, but its latest effort might end up offending as many people as it amuses. Its proposal, spotted by Quartz, is for a voice search system ...

Did you know that your foreign accent is a lot worse than you think it is? It is. You just can’t hear how awful you sound. This is the finding of a new linguistic study in PLoS One from Germany’s ...

The more empathy one has for another, the lighter the accent will be when speaking in a second language, according to new research. "In addition to personal-affective factors, it has been found that ...

Mary Grantham O'Brien received research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Cesar Teló received funding from Global Affairs Canada. Pavel Trofimovich received ...

If you’ve ever wanted to develop a new accent, now is your time to shine, language experts say. Turns out, all it takes is “severe” and “long-lived” isolation for accents to develop or stick, which is ...

If Spanish is your second language in America, chances are you’ll speak with a better accent if you have more empathy for Latin Americans, suggests a new Israeli study. Researchers from the University ...