North Carolina has an extensive audio archive of local accents and dialects that contains thousands of recordings. Rhode Island, sadly, has nothing of the kind. So here's a sampling of accents from ...

In Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog,” the firefly Ray says he has a Cajun accent because he was “born and bred in the bayou!” While that may be true for Ray, the voice actor portraying him, Jim ...

President Joe Biden’s Boston accent could use some work. The president attempted to use a Boston accent Wednesday when he said good-bye to former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and announced his labor ...

Alice Foucart receives funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Luca Bazzi and Susanne Brouwer do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

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 ...