Central Ohioans, on the other hand, were seen as having little to no accent, averaging around 20 to 25. Northern Ohio fell somewhere in-between, at about 50. As it turned out, researchers found ...

Central Ohio residents didn’t have much of an accent, according to participants. Northern Ohio scored right in the middle between “not at all accented” and “very accented.” But ...

Although the participants weren’t told this at the time, all the speakers had grown up in one of three regions of Ohio that linguists have coded as having particular accents: northern Ohio (the ...