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English serves as a convenient, common language for science. However, this practice poses insurmountable barriers to those whose first language is not English — the majority of people around the world ...

In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers at the University of College Dublin investigated how non-native English users experience voice assistants -- specifically Google ...

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, have published a new study in Cognitive Science that shows people are more likely to believe information given to them by a native speaker rather ...

The shift to remote work means we have a greater ability and opportunity to work with people worldwide, who may not be native English-speakers. Here are five things you can do to ensure those ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Pronunciation accuracy may not be the most important thing for making non-native English speakers easier to understand, but rather it is their fluency, including fewer pauses, ...

Prior research has revealed a native-accent advantage, whereby nonnative-accented speech is more difficult to process than native-accented speech. Nonnative-accented speakers also experience more ...

Language With the Most Native Speakers Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world. Mandarin is the native language of hundreds of millions of people , mostly in China and other ...

If someone asked you to read this text aloud in a French accent or an Italian one, you would likely understand what that means and be able to produce some version of it, even if it’s not entirely ...

An Education Department regulation penalizes Fulbright-Hays applicants if they grew up speaking the language of their proposed country for research. Lawsuits have followed. By Erica L. Green ...

A recent study conducted last October at the University of Birmingham found that exposure to poor grammar can lead to physical stress. The researchers studied 41 adults and exposed them to grammatical ...