Don't speak perfect Oxford English? You may face "shocking" levels of discrimination when using large language models, researchers have found. New customized AI models could be the answer. Whether ...

Arabic dialects have long carried a stigma and been dismissed as slang, but linguists are calling for them to be viewed as a source of pride. On the closing day of the International Congress of Arabic ...

University of Essex provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. From the moment we are born (and even before that, in utero), we tune into the languages around us. This includes the accents ...

Recently, the 6th Circuit ruled that an employer's negative statements about an employee's accent may be deemed to be direct evidence of discrimination, requiring the employer to demonstrate that it ...

Mary Grantham O'Brien received research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Cesar Teló received funding from Global Affairs Canada. Pavel Trofimovich received ...