The ability of children to speak any two dialects -- two closely related varieties of the same language -- may confer the same cognitive advantages as those reported for multilingual children who ...

A survey of English dialects has been launched to look at whether people are still using words like coochy-pawed and ferntickles. Researchers travelled across England in the 1950s asking people about ...

This is the culmination of Rick Aschmann’s years-long “hobby” of collecting dialects. It’s a comprehensive and detailed map of the dialects (and sub-dialects!) of English-speakers in Canada and the ...

SCRANTON — Jeet yet? No. D’joo? Longtime residents of Northeast Pennsylvania likely would readily understand hearing that coal-region-speak as: Did you eat yet? No. Did you? Likewise, they would know ...

No matter where you're from, we're probably all familiar with the fact that different people from different places might speak with a different accent or dialect from our own. But are there Internet ...

PETER Trudgill is one of the world’s renowned authorities on sociolinguistics and dialects. Trudgill says in his book On dialect: Social and geographical perspectives that “one of the things that ...

Originally, the study of Dialectology was a sub-discipline of the study of sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistics can be traced back as far back as 5 BCE in India, however it was only really considered to ...

A DIALECT is a variety of a language. According to dialectologists, regional dialects are specific to geographical areas. For instance, Vicholi and Sarai are varieties of the Sindhi language spoken in ...