Southern dialects may be spreading across the UK, but the North is pushing back in some areas, new research has shown.
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Aug 8, 2022
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Previous study results have suggested that people generally comprehend and evaluate the pronunciation of a speaker less well if they suspect that the speaker is ethnically foreign. However, a new study by Dr. Adriana Hanulíková, ...
Social Sciences
Nov 17, 2021
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A recent survey of 2,000 adults in the UK identified the top ten "mispronunciations" people find annoying. Thankfully the majority (65 percent) of annoyed people do not feel comfortable correcting a speaker in public.
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Jun 25, 2021
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Learners of foreign languages can hear the errors in pronunciation that fellow learners tend to make, but continue to fall foul of them themselves despite years of practice. A new study of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet ...
Education
Feb 10, 2020
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It's only a 40-minute drive from Queens to the Bronx in New York, but the difference in dialect is obvious to most familiar with the English language.
Social Sciences
Jan 16, 2020
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A greater focus on pronunciation when teaching English to new migrants could help improve their employment prospects, according to research from Victoria University of Wellington's School of Linguistics and Applied Language ...
Social Sciences
Dec 2, 2016
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A new Emmy Noether Research Group at LMU focuses on how we learn to pronounce the unfamiliar sounds in a foreign language, and why it is often difficult for us to avoid errors in pronunciation that we pounce on when they ...
Social Sciences
May 18, 2015
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(Phys.org) —A team of linguistics experts from the U.S., Great Britain and New Zealand has found evidence that suggests a core group of words used in a common language thousands of years ago has survived to this day. In ...
(Phys.org)—It's no secret that Utahns tend to drop the T in words like "mountain." In fact, they've become notorious for it. BYU linguistics professor David Eddington and student Matthew Savage researched how, exactly, ...
Social Sciences
Dec 11, 2012
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A new study of how compound word formation is influenced by subtle forms of linguistic pressure demonstrates that words which "sound better" to the speakers of a language have a higher chance of being created, suggesting ...
Social Sciences
Dec 9, 2011
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