Many people in Japan lead a double life -- linguistically speaking, that is. In their community, they speak the hogen (dialect) of their city, town or village, while outside it they may be accustomed ...

BAUBAU — In an eastern Indonesian village, schoolchildren scrawl the distinctive circles and lines of Hangul script on a whiteboard, but the language they are learning is not Korean. It is their own ...

To study how dialects change over time, you need a single speaker who’s lived in different regions and has been recorded a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In linguistics and in other social sciences there are two kinds of facts for describing data-"hard" facts, the measurements of external events ...

(WXIN/NEXSTAR) — Do you say “pop,” “soda,” or “Coke” when you’re talking about carbonated beverages? Chances are where you live affects how you ask for a soft drink — and that has everything to do ...

Large language models (LLMs), including those that power chatbots such as ChatGPT, make racist judgements on the basis of users’ dialect, a preprint study has found 1. Researchers found that some ...