While many dialects are gradually disappearing, Cantonese remains vibrant and widely used. Yuan Xiaoting, from Shenzhen in Guangdong province, is a renowned language vlogger and educator who has ...

Much like people from different regions speak with different accents or use unique expressions, many animals have their own 'dialects'. Songbirds such as sparrows and finches, or even whales, learn ...

Chimpanzees and humans already share 98.8% of the same DNA — they might as well learn to share conversation, too. New ...

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 ...

Research has shown that local dialects play an important role in self, in-group, and cultural identity. But can they also impact our interaction with robots? This question is particularly relevant ...

We’ve explored how dialectology is studied in linguistics, but dialects also mentioned in the media all the time. Below are just a few articles that can give you an insight into dialectology research.

At École Pointe-au-Chien, the focus is on teaching local French dialects first, an approach the school's founders believe is unique in the state and possibly the country. Like many of their ...

Dialects differ from one another on a number of linguistic levels: from the words people use to how they’re pronounced, and what grammatical patterns are followed. An example of this is whether ...

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.