Yahoo

Is Ukrainian a language or a dialect? That depends on whom you ask and how the war ends

Whether someone's speech is a language or a dialect is a matter of both linguistics and politics. illust-monster/iStock/Getty Images Plus In 2022, after the start of ...
Popular Mechanics

Scientists Studied Taylor Swift’s Voice—and Uncovered a Hidden Truth About Human Speech

Dialect is often seen as a static feature of personality, but research shows that a person’s dialect (as well as the dialect itself) usually evolves over time. Scientists from the University of ...
The New York Times

New Mexico Is Losing a Form of Spanish Spoken Nowhere Else on Earth

A dialect from the state’s earliest Spanish-speaking settlers has endured for over 400 years in the state’s remote mountain villages. But its time may be running out. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Brief History of the United States’ Accents and Dialects

Accents center on the pronunciation of words, while dialects encompass pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Here, the subjects of Grant Wood's American Gothic channel speaking styles popular in ...
Entrepreneur

Companies Aren’t Talking About Black Vernacular and Dialect Bias in The Workplace. Here’s Why That Needs to Change.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), also known as Black Vernacular English (BVA) or ebonics, is a historic American English ...
The Conversation

English dialects make themselves heard in genes

Yakov Pichkar receives funding from the John Templeton Foundation (grant no. 62187). Nicole Creanza receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Different ...