A recent US workplace incident of accent bias against an Indian professional highlights the urgent need for businesses to ...

If that’s true, though, then we’d expect people to also be good at detecting when someone is “faking” it – what we call ...

In the mid-20 th century, the Inland North accent was affected by what’s called the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, which changed the way certain vowel sounds are pronounced unbeknownst to the ...

The Power of Accents surveyed 2,002 U.S. residents, aged 18 and older, to explore which regional and international accents Americans find the most friendly, trustworthy and persuasive.

Chinese Influence in the Middle East Comes With a Local Accent. ... “You will not find China pointing the finger and saying ‘more human rights, less human rights, more business openness. ...

Videotaped proceedings from the 1986 Constitutional Convention are available online thanks to the Rhode Island State Archives, and contain a treasure trove of accents. Here's the late Raymond ...

Local Accents Give You a Sense of Place Barbara Johnstone is a professor of rhetoric and linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University and the author of " Speaking Pittsburghese: The Story of a Dialect ." ...

Your accent becomes a bridge to opportunities for cross-cultural collaborations, partnerships, and friendships that might not have occurred otherwise. Speaking other languages helps your brain ...

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A Welsh accent is a distinct disadvantage for people who want to succeed in business, according to new research. Only 11% of business people questioned thought that those with a Welsh accent were ...

LAS VEGAS – Two independent retailers capitalizing on consumers’ need to experience product in person shared their strategies – and challenges – during a panel at Las Vegas Market. The two Retail ...