The ability of children to speak any two dialects -- two closely related varieties of the same language -- may confer the same cognitive advantages as those reported for multilingual children who ...

Students studying for exams, competing against each other in areas involving language, and in general, should learn to distinguish between a language and its dialects. While the words are frequently ...

Bengali cinema's reliance on authentic dialects is waning, with many films now reducing regional speech to mere markers for domestic workers. Directors and actors once treated dialect as a core ...

SCRANTON — Jeet yet? No. D’joo? Longtime residents of Northeast Pennsylvania likely would readily understand hearing that coal-region-speak as: Did you eat yet? No. Did you? Likewise, they would know ...