AP The Southern accent, which has many variations, is fading in some areas of the South as people migrate to the region from other parts of the U.S. and around the world. A series of research ...

Here, accents take on a different flavor, dropping 'r's to make words like 'car' become 'cah.' In some places like the Delmarva Peninsula of Maryland and Virginia, the Pamlico Sound area of North ...

RASCOE: You know, with people moving around much more and, you know, these big, growing Southern metropolitan areas, does that mean that the Southern accent is doomed? RENWICK: I don't think the ...

The Southern accent, which has many variations, is fading in some areas of the South as people migrate to the region from other parts of the U.S. and around the world. A series of research papers ...

There's no strict recipe for the Rhode Island accent. But these are the ingredients that you're likely to find in the mix.

“The demographics of the South have changed a lot with people moving into the area ... in your mouth when you pronounce each vowel, which gives us a quantitative metric of accent,” said ...

FAS also affects the way in which you place your tongue in your mouth as you talk ... any contact with the country or geographical area of the accent they picked up. According to research ...

Take the Cockney accent from East London. Like Southern American English, one of its primary features is a shift in vowel placement, retracting their vowel sounds towards the back of the mouth.

We judge travel by time instead of distance, In-N-Out is a must, and some locals really lean into that Valley Girl accent ... you were just from a valley area. What valley? Basically any in ...

The results suggest that while many Ohioans believe certain areas have stronger accents than others, their ability to recognize those accents in actual speech does not quite match up.

Interestingly, these areas also showed smaller differences in success rates between clips when the speaker was imitating their own accent or another. Lead author Dr Jonathan Goodman believes that ...