He cautions that he hasn’t done a real computer analysis in which he would, say, measure the length and volume of vowel sounds, but his ear for North Carolina accents is still pretty good.

Dialogue scenes are often quiet, dreamy, melancholic, and there’s no involved choreography. It’s hard not to find the more RP accents of some of the cast jarring against the German setting for some ...

While Southern Irish topped the table, closely followed by the Received Pronunciation ... unique vowel play, the appeal of the Glasgow brogue lies in its distinctiveness. The Highlands accent ...

“Vowels carry a lot of accents. So what’s actually happened is her brain has sort of created a change in the way her vowels sound and we as listeners match that to something we’re familiar ...

“Vowels carry a lot of accents. So what’s actually happened is her brain has sort of created a change in the way her vowels sound and we as listeners match that to something we’re familiar ...

“Americans often listen to vowels to judge how much of an accent someone has,” Campbell-Kibler said. For example, some people may pronounce “pen” so that it sounds to others like they are ...