A solid Spanish accent, like Alfred Molina uses to portray Diego Rivera in “Frida,” makes a performance all the more believable. A questionable one, however, like Al Pacino uses as Tony Montana in ...

Wales is a country in the United Kingdom, located just West of England. Although they may sound similar, differences between the Welsh and English accents include Welsh’s more elongated vowel sounds ...

Ever wonder if how you speak affects your chances of getting a job? Unfortunately, it does. While it’s illegal to discriminate against race or national origin, including accents, the lines are a bit ...

In the revision of the NHK’s accent dictionary to “NHK’s New Dictionary of Japanese Pronunciation and Accentuation” (published in May 2016), the results of a survey series targeting announcers were ...

Previous expositions of Japanese accent have assumed that unaccented forms of inflected words are to be equated in basic accent type with atonic nouns; they also assume that verb and adjective bases ...