Rice University study of how the brain processes speech sounds found significant behavioral and physiological differences between a merged-dialect group and an unmerged-dialect group. When Rice ...

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 ...

Language researchers are flocking to the University of Alabama for a three-day conference on the Southern dialect of American English. Nestled between academic lectures are a handful of presentations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conditions in rural England around the turn of the 20th century offer a case study for cultural evolution researchers. Heritage ...

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 ...