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 ...

• University of Freiburg study on vocabulary acquisition uses novel game-based design • Study results: Children of primary school age can benefit from long-term experience with multiple accents when ...

What if the way you talked caused you to be denied opportunities that other people have? For instance, when calling to ask about a job opening, you were told it was filled but then found out a friend ...

In any community, language is the most important method for communicating with others. However, for a deaf person like me, it is difficult to connect with many people and speak in the same ways. This ...

The works of William Shakespeare are classics, and rightly so, but the language used by the playwright can sometimes feel like quite difficult to understand. Given the archaic language used and the ...