When you hear someone speak, what’s the first thing you notice? For many of us, it’s the accent. Whether it’s someone with a British lilt, a Southern drawl, or a New York twang, accents have a way of immediately defining where we think someone is from. But a recent study by Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, a linguist at Ohio University, suggests that our perception of accents may have less to do with what we hear and more to do with what we’ve been taught through culture and socialization. This challenge to the conventional wisdom that accents are strictly an auditory phenomenon opens up an intriguing conversation about how we judge speech.
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