Believe it or not, Michigan — the home of ope-sayers and pop-lovers — does actually have an accent of its own. The Michigan accent is a part of a more wide-ranging regional accent called the Inland ...

American accents come from varied origins, mixing geographic, cultural and migration patterns. The Michigan accent encompasses the local speech habits of Michiganders. It is part of the Inland North ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — A new dialect is forming in Raleigh, and Scarlett O’Hara it ain’t. There’s a gradual shift toward a less distinctive regional accent, and the vowel sounds are leading the way.

The U.S. has dozens of distinct regional accents reflecting not just place, but also race and ancestry. But these days, the world isn't as regionally confined as it used to be: Media comes from all ...

You can drive from High Point State Park to the tip of Cape May in less than three hours, traversing the whole of New Jersey in only about 240 miles. However, if you get out of the car and listen to ...

Professor William Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist and author of the new book Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change, says there is a shift of vowel sounds ...