In this article, I argue that at least in some subsets of grammar, non-standard dialects are indeed more natural than their standard counterparts. I present data from the new Freiburg English Dialect ...

Later, I emigrated to the U.S. to teach linguistics at Wayne State University and began researching and teaching what academics call African American Vernacular English, or the everyday speech of ...

A man I know recently spent several weeks visiting his native South Africa. Upon his return to the United States, he found himself one day passing through a certain section of Oakland. Everyone on the ...

American English dialects and pronunciation have been a point of interest from coast to coast among linguists for years. In 1999, the Harvard Dialect Survey, a research project conducted by Professor ...

Immigration judges must determine whether individuals facing deportation who speak dialects of English also understand American English or need interpreters, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday in ...

Computers don’t harbor the more problematic prejudices that are unfortunately still found in parts of society, but that isn’t to say they’re without their faults. One task machines frequently prove ...

On the streets of New Orleans, it’s common to hear a local using this question over the phone. The phrase is a strung together version of “Where are you at,” which seems obvious to southeastern ...

Where in the world is a pin a pen and tin means ten? Ohio, that’s where. Well, southern and southeastern Ohio, anyway. Residents of those areas speak something called south, one of three distinct Ohio ...

A new dialect has been emerging from certain parts of Miami due to cultural intermingling between Spanish and English speakers. The distinct dialect is a Spanish-influenced dialect of English, born ...

Launched alongside the Pixel 4 back in October 2019, the Google Recorder app is an excellent transcription app that leverages Google’s powerful voice recognition and AI language processing. After ...