What is a “beautiful” accent, and what makes one hard to understand ... Tinker’s 1935 essay on “Gombo,” the dialect of French ...

It’s redundant. But Donald Trump placing a hand on Emmanuel Macron’s leg and complimenting the accent of not just the French president but also an Italian journalist? Definitely not what we ...

Opinions on language are not based in any objective standards of beauty or aesthetics, but rather on our attitudes about the people speaking them.

Over time, the changes went beyond accent to include different words and ... who spoke Dutch, Swedish, French and Spanish. All of these languages influenced American English, as did the English ...

Accents refer to the way language is pronounced ... In a separate 2009 study, researchers monitored the cries of 60 newborns, 30 were French and the other 30 German. They found that French babies ...