Dialect coach Erik Singer is back, this time to take a look at tongue twisters. We've all tried tongue twisters in our lives, and know how hard they can be! But "why" are they hard? What makes one ...

Hidden bias based on people's accents has been around since the dawn of time. New research published in the journal Frontiers in Communication has taken this one step further after analysing certain ...

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 ...