UK accents perceived as lower status were more often linked to crimes such as theft, fraud and assault, regardless of the speaker’s actual behavior. (via Wesley Tingey on Unsplash) (CN) — The way we ...

Many well-known actors use accent reduction to cast more movie roles. And sometimes even the most attentive film-watchers ...

When a person hears someone talk, it usually doesn’t take long for them to key in on that person’s accent. In just a few syllables, the person who is listening might already be forming assumptions ...

Accents can be subject to subtle forms of prejudice, but does that mean some are more appealing and trustworthy than others? BBC Future takes a look. On 14 November 1922 the BBC broadcast its first ...

Robert Downey Jr’s bizarre Welsh accent in the new Dr Dolittle film has been ridiculed. But how important is it for actors to get their intonation on point, asks Rachael Sigee. At the ripe old age of ...

Speakers of some accents risk being stereotyped as more likely to have committed a crime, new research suggests. The study led by the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with Nottingham Trent ...

University of Manitoba provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Manitoba provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. United States President Donald ...

George Bernard Shaw noted it a century ago. “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him,” the Irish playwright observed in his ...

University of Essex provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. From the moment we are born (and even before that, in utero), we tune into the languages around us. This includes the accents ...