Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A 2020 study of how a regional accent could impact wages found that having a different accent can reduce how much you’re paid by as much as 20%. The study, put together and researched by the ...

IN THE EARLY 1790s French revolutionaries commissioned a priest, Henri Grégoire, to take a census of the languages spoken in France. His findings were eventually titled a “Report on the necessity and ...

Athanasios Andrikopoulos does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Recently, the 6th Circuit ruled that an employer's negative statements about an employee's accent may be deemed to be direct evidence of discrimination, requiring the employer to demonstrate that it ...

The Assemblée Nationale of France made discrimination based on regional accents an actionable offense Friday, adopting a bill proposed by deputy Chrisophe Euzet by a vote of 98 to 3. The new law ...

Arabic dialects have long carried a stigma and been dismissed as slang, but linguists are calling for them to be viewed as a source of pride. On the closing day of the International Congress of Arabic ...

Automated speech recognition (ASR), which converts spoken language into text, is used in varied contexts such as medical translation services, crisis management, dictation, and closed captioning.

Over and over again, I’ve witnessed many people, most of whom are new immigrants, tourists, or English language learners apologize for their ability to speak English before starting a conversation.

With a heated debate still raging over the Oakland school board's recent decision recognizing ebonics as a distinct language, the Graduate School of Education brought in John Baugh, a professor of ...