American English dialects and pronunciation have been a point of interest from coast to coast among linguists for years. In 1999, the Harvard Dialect Survey, a research project conducted by ...

The impulse to reach for sounds instead of words to mean “yep” and “nope” crosses cultural boundaries. Swedes can agree by ...

and last January a meeting was held to consider the expediency of adopting some method of systematic investigation of the dialects of the spoken English of the United States and Canada.

Krisp wants to make accents easier to understand - while preserving the unique qualities of a voice. It's starting with Indian dialects.

Of course, the mere fact that we’ve learned a standard dialect can tell someone listening to us many things. Perhaps we’ve had a lot of education, or our parents were from the upper middle-class, or ...