The Barrow-in-Furness accent is very different from the rest of Lancashire and Cumbria because of an intense mixing and rapid population change in the late 1800s, says new research by Lancaster ...

People form judgements about others from the way they speak, yet listeners are often unaware of their deeply embedded "implicit" biases. That's one of the findings from the British Academy-funded ...

The Barrow-in-Furness accent is very different from the rest of Lancashire and Cumbria because of an intense mixing and rapid population change in the late 1800s, says new research by Lancaster ...

You better knock off that awful attempt at a Scottish brogue, mate: A team of researchers has found that people in the northern United Kingdom and Ireland are especially good at telling when you’re ...

In a study by Cambridge University, people from Belfast proved most able to detect someone imitating their accent, while people from London, Essex and Bristol were least accurate. Corresponding author ...