No one has ever said that there is anything unique about a couple of vowels in Durham,” says Walt Wolfram, a North Carolina ...

And then we also asked them how much of an accent they thought happened in different parts of Ohio. And so, people are actually pretty good at hearing the features, the vowel pronunciations that ...

"Americans often listen to vowels to judge how much of an accent someone has," Campbell-Kibler said. For example, some people may pronounce "pen" so that it sounds to others like they are saying ...