American Accent Undergoing Great Vowel Shift Professor William Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist and author of the new book Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and ...

An exploration of the ways our tongues—and our pride—twist around foreign words, and what that says about how we want to be seen. It wasn’t so much that my friend, a Brit who has lived in Los Angeles ...

Welcome to the Vowels In America (VIA) research project, a joint effort by sociolinguists from the University of Nevada, Reno and the University of Oregon to better understand the relationship between ...

This is why many linguists believe that it meets all the criteria of a phonetic vowel. Up to now, I've only been talking about the standard American pronunciation of R, but you're probably aware ...

“A lot of the British vowel sounds are narrow and shorter, while the American vowel is wider and the sound is forward, more nasal and brighter,” she says. The American accent has another sound ...

The Michigan accent, part of the Inland North accent, is part of American English. Here are how some words sound in the accent.

There's no strict recipe for the Rhode Island accent. But these are the ingredients that you're likely to find in the mix.

but which would not otherwise be present in American English dialects. "Boat"-like vowel sounds seemed more "pseudo-monophthongal" in nature. But when these were compared with benchmark ...

A Singapore man was denied a $10,000 prize due to his pronunciation, despite correctly identifying singer Tony Hadley. Pronunciations like "Hadley" and "Hedlye" vary globally, with notable ...

More on that in our episode about African-American English. And the researchers wanted to isolate changes over time. They specifically looked at vowels. Why? Well, we make consonant sounds by ...

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