Howard University and Google Research released data today which can be used by artificial intelligence developers to improve ...

A survey of more than 30,000 people, turned into a series of maps, showcase the linguistic quirks that make American English such a fascinating dialect.

Researchers at Howard University and Google are working to improve Black individuals’ experience when using artificial intelligence and automatic speech-recognition technologies, like Siri, Alexa or ...

The many variations in the American South include South Midland, Ozark, Coastal Southern, Virginia Piedmont, Gullah, Cajun English and Gulf Southern. The popularity of specific dialects is often ...

Linguists who have spent their lives studying American dialects say blacks and whites not only speak two different forms of English, the dialects are more different today than they were 100 years ago.

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

African American Vernacular English is a stigmatized dialect that is still ridiculed in education and the workplace. Its speakers are coherent and intelligent communicators, but remain disadvantaged.

For example, "bajar del carro" becomes "get down from the car" - not "get out of the car" as you would expect to see in most American English dialects. This new dialect isn't only been adopted by ...

From James Baldwin, to the first settlers in the Plymouth Colony, to beat poets, to hip-hop artists, American English in all its forms has become a global, and imperial language. "Words are never ...