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

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 ...

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 ...

Instead [i]-like vowels will more readily arise when we ... Please send suggestions to Scientific American’s Mind Matters editor Daisy Yuhas at dyuhas@sciam.com. Katarzyna Pisanski is a ...

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

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 ...

The language barrier has helped maintain an air of unreality around the papacy in the U.S. That is about to change.

“American Idol” has a new champion. The long-running singing competition series crowned the winner of Season 23 on Sunday, after drawing 26 million fan votes, the most since the reality ...

"American Idol" is swiftly whittling down the competition. In two consecutive episodes, the ABC competition show shed 10 contestants. After viewers picked their 20 favorite singers from the Top 24 ...