Linguist Valerie Fridland debunks perceptions around accents that still shape what counts as “proper” speech and what ...

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If you have a rhotic accent, you pronounce the /r/ sound whenever the letter 'r' appears in a word, like in 'learn', 'better' and 'perfect'. North American accents are usually rhotic, and other ...

Krupa Padhy uncovers how we really learn foreign languages – in a dual challenge involving both Portuguese and Mandarin.

Sometimes we contract groups of words to make them shorter and to make the sentence more efficient. For example 'I am' becomes 'I'm'. They can help us speak a bit faster and more fluently. Conditional ...

2 Faculty of Health Care, University of Professional Education, Utrecht, The Netherlands 3 Department of Pediatric Physical Therapy & Exercise Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, ...