and Margaret B. Fassitt professor of Linguistics, who has been studying the Philadelphia dialect since the 1960s. Tamminga said there are several examples of recent phonetic changes. Building on prior ...

A University of Pennsylvania linguistics professor says the Southern-inflected sound of the Philadelphia dialect is moving ... Philadelphian made in 1982, for example, should provide a snapshot ...

And he doesn’t mean Philadelphia International Records. The Philadelphia accent has been in the news quite a bit the last year, stemming from the paper Penn professor and linguistics god William ...

Sorry, wooder ice and Iggles fans: Big changes in the special Philly dialect we know and (mostly) love, noted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania only ...

Philadelphia’s accent is unmistakable, and it’s often a source of pride among residents. What if you understood it better? Would you want to know what makes a Philly accent work the way it does?

"For example, the sign for hospital ... the researchers suspect. The dialect is strongest in the older members of the Philadelphia deaf community, many of whom attended the school.