The Irish immigrants in the United States over the last 250 years has left a lasting legacy, that being how Americans speak. The tapestry of American accents and dialects is a rich and diverse mosaic, ...

Day-one fans of Taylor Swift know that the pop superstar has come a long way since launching her music career as a country singer — and that evolution is apparent in her dialect, according to speech ...

Audio player for the podcast episode "STEM Tea | Representation matters: dialects and accents in the workplace". Use keyboard controls to play, pause, and navigate through the audio content. In this ...

A new study provides evidence that pop star Taylor Swift’s speaking voice shifted in measurable ways as she moved through different social and geographic communities during her career. Researchers ...

Winn attests that a person's dialect reflects all the places they've lived and all the people who have influenced them. He ...

For Martha Barnette, griping about grammatical pet peeves is one of the least interesting ways to talk about language. Instead, the co-host of the radio show “A Way with Words” says she’d rather think ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This bibliography continues and supplements one that was published by Wolfgang Viereck, Orbis 16 (1967), 549-568; 17 (1968), 532-535. Journal ...

Dialect is often seen as a static feature of personality, but research shows that a person’s dialect (as well as the dialect itself) usually evolves over time. Scientists from the University of ...

Researchers have confirmed what Taylor Swift fans have long suspected: the music megastar’s dialect and pitch have shifted throughout her career. In the early stages of Swift’s music career, while she ...

Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. Juliet and Lana attend École Pointe-au-Chien, a new public French immersion ...