Here, Dr Baratta argues that society’s problem with accents could have more to do with perception than pronunciation. The way we talk can reveal a lot about us and our origins – in terms of region, ...

Try words for babies or friends, happy, sad, tired, lucky. Just like accents, people speak differently across the UK, and so a dialect is neither right nor wrong. Narrator (referencing the burp ...

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From the broad Scottish brogue to the unmistakable Geordie twang, the UK is home to a bewilderingly diverse array of different accents. But while you might pride yourself on your knowledge of ...

He adds that an accent is an identity and that learning to speak like someone else ... Like Mrs Onwuzuruike, she has never been to the UK but considers herself an expert in the British accent ...

But the peculiarities of UK accents seem notoriously hard for ... At the time, Hathaway told AP news agency about the difficulty of learning the accent: "I was so nervous about it that I can ...

The UK's most relaxing accent has been revealed in a study. The survey asked a group of 1,502 nationally representative people to rank 15 UK accents from most to least relaxing. The Welsh accent ...

In an article published in the journal Computer Speech and Language, researchers introduced three innovative deep learning models—multi-task pyramid split attention- densely convolutional ...

all in the northern areas of the UK and Ireland, were remarkably better at detecting fake accents than people from the southern UK. For their experiment, researchers gathered 50 participants to ...