When Xiaoyun Shen's boss asked her to take an accent reduction class she was a little flustered. "I didn't know I had a problem" said Shen a 43-year-old senior scientist at the biotech company ...

Workers at a federal laboratory in Tennessee can talk with Southern accents to their heart’s content after managers scrapped an idea to help them “fix” their natural dialects. Last week, the Oak Ridge ...

Theresa Cinotti, a clinical assistant professor at UB’s Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic, finds accented English beautiful. An accent, she says, is something distinct and individual, a clue to a ...

(WSVN) - Hearing someone speak with an accent is not unusual in South Florida, so one city employee was shocked when she was told to get rid of hers. 7’s Brian Entin has our special report “War of ...

The foreign accents that charm many Americans can also be a major barrier to getting hired after graduation. In order for international students with heavy accents to improve their employment chances ...

Vicky Wang studied English for months in China before she came to Canada in July 2005, but after being here for about 10 months, she still found she had difficulty making herself understood. One ...