Scientists have identified two distinct dialects in Mediterranean sperm whales and believe it mirrors the movement of ...

You can tell where Emily Sweeney is from the minute she says "coffee." If you want to imagine her speaking, picture her ...

The way a language encodes gender suggests a subtle link to how its speakers view their own personalities. A recent study ...

What would a person in Revolutionary America sound like? Early letters, documents, and diaries help us listen in.

Spanish girl names are increasingly popular among global families for their soft sounds, meaningful origins, and melodic structure. Those choices stand out because they are typically phonetic, ...

A psychologist wades into controversial territory in this counterintuitive study of nature, nurture and gender According to the evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams, almost everyone gets ...

Accents are usually thought of as a human trait, indicating where a person has grown up or the communities they belong—and new research shows the same dialects can also occur in Australia's largest ...

While an excited crowd of white, Black, old and young people lined up outside a movie theater on the Warner Bros. lot recently to see “Sinners,” Michael B. Jordan quietly slipped into a back room and ...

Throughout “Task,” the seven-episode crime thriller that concluded on HBO on Oct. 19, viewers were re-introduced to the specific Delaware County, Pa. accent that they’d perhaps first heard in HBO’s ...

CU Linguistics is pleased to present in a lecture by UIUC professor and computational linguist, Dr. Jonathan Dunn, in partnership with the Institute of Cognitive Science. This talk presents a ...