The Dictionary of American Regional English showcases the diverse dialects of different areas of the United States. From whoopensocker to juglum, these wacky words record the history of American ...

American English dialects and pronunciation have been a point of interest from coast to coast among linguists for years. In 1999, the Harvard Dialect Survey, a research project conducted by ...

A new book on American English in the Midwest makes Chicago seem exotic. It’s certainly not the title: “Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at `Heartland ...

The effort could significantly improve the experience of Black users interacting with voice-enabled technology, and an HBCU is ...

Called Project Elevate Black Voices, the initiative focuses on helping AI systems better understand African American English (AAE) across its many dialects, the school’s blog, The Dig, announced.

In a new paper, O’Connor and other researchers created the largest dataset for studying African-American English from online communication, composed of 59 million tweets from 2.8 million users.

View full size DARE newsletter, Fall 2000August Rubrecht was 26 when he began working on the Dictionary of American Regional English in 1967. "It seemed exciting," Rubrecht said.

Introducing diversity in online language analysis Linguist, computer scientists teach machines African-American English dialect Date: September 7, 2016 Source: University of Massachusetts at ...