For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the differences she noticed between how white people spoke, when compared ...

Across the globe, Creole and English varieties occupy complex sociolinguistic landscapes where speakers’ beliefs and feelings about language shape identity, access to resources and social mobility.

How well do language models understand Meenzerisch, the dialect spoken in the German city of Mainz? A research team led by ...

Researchers incorporate language ideologies, along with the impact of interaction between individuals with opposing preferences, on the language shift process. The team chose a quantitative approach ...

Language has always been used as a political football in South Africa. This can be traced back to the competing English and Dutch colonisers, from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, each group ...

Language attitudes are the beliefs, values and expectations that individuals or communities hold towards particular languages or language varieties. These attitudes shape identity, social ...

Linguistic diversity, sustainability, and the future of the past / Suzanne Romaine -- When is an "extinct language" not extinct? : Miami, a formerly sleeping language / Wesley Y. Leonard -- Evaluating ...

People who speak a regional dialect or who have an accent may be at a disadvantage in personnel selection processes. This is the result of a new meta-analysis carried out by researchers at Freie ...

Language has the power to shape our perceptions and interactions with the world. Different languages can coexist, but their dynamics are shaped by the communities that speak them – and how those ...