Did you know that your foreign accent is a lot worse than you think it is? It is. You just can’t hear how awful you sound. This is the finding of a new linguistic study in PLoS One from Germany’s ...

Infants raised in homes where they hear a single language, but spoken with different accents, recognize words dramatically differently at about 12 months of age than their age-matched peers exposed to ...

If you spend a few months around people who talk differently than you, you might start sounding a little like them, researchers report Friday in the journal Language. Case in point: reality television ...

If Spanish is your second language in America, chances are you’ll speak with a better accent if you have more empathy for Latin Americans, suggests a new Israeli study. Researchers from the University ...

If you’ve ever wanted to develop a new accent, now is your time to shine, language experts say. Turns out, all it takes is “severe” and “long-lived” isolation for accents to develop or stick, which is ...

When adults speak a second language, you can oftentimes tell. Usually, it’s from what’s coming out of their mouth. But communication isn’t always verbal. Their body (and head) moves too. And according ...

Here's something to think about as you sip your latté (or your piña colada) while listening to Beyoncé (or Mötley Crüe): Just how important to the English language are accented characters? And will ...