This matters because intonation (the rise and fall of speech that conveys emotion, emphasis, and intent) can flip meaning ...

From hiding their jobs, to secret relationships and faking accents, many contestants have trialled strategies to gain ...

No one does eager like this, and yes, that’s exactly as promising as it sounds. British accent, relentless in her intent, openly thrilled by every rule she crosses—honestly, it feels like she’s ...

By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.

Parodists strive to imitate my plummy English voice, one of the last to remain outside captivity, but it is beyond their ...

In this video, I explore the subplot of Colin Frissell in *Love Actually*, analyzing whether his British accent is genuinely charming to Americans or if there's a cultural misunderstanding at play. I ...

1 School of English, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom 2 Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands This study investigates how ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. I am an English professor, so let me first address my own. Colleagues, this is the moment to make the ...

Jeamie TKV is the new British heavyweight champion after a split decision win in a brawl against Frazer Clarke. The raw statistics will never be enough to tell the story of 12 relentless rounds of ...

Every new semester, college students debate if professors with thick accents should teach courses packed with technical material. It’s a touchy subject. Some students claim that accents make it harder ...

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 ...