People judge accents based on stereotypes, not real speech. Many fail to recognize vowel shifts in everyday conversation.

Keely Wolter first knew she had an accent when she was growing up in St. Paul. “I didn’t think it was a strong as it actually ...

The study, published earlier this month in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, suggests a strong cultural component to how ...

“Edmund Stoiber is German. That is the Bavarian accent and dialect,” he responded after a peal of long laughter. Well, this is not how I had wished to discover that – just an hour away from us in the ...