In the past few days, a great deal of media attention has been paid to Leanne Rowe, a Tasmanian woman who has lived eight years with a French accent she acquired after a car accident. This phenomenon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “At school, at university or in the mass media, it's common to consider having an accent a bit of a bad thing. It's not something ...

When a society changes, its language is likely to change along with it. To take an extreme example, past colonisers often forced the inhabitants of colonised lands to speak their language. If they ...

“At school, at university or in the mass media, it's common to consider having an accent a bit of a bad thing. It's not something positive,” says Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus, a sociolinguist at the ...