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Historically Speaking: How language & accent shape your brain

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The Rotik Are a Great Difference Between English and British English

Lara studies how speech sounds vary between different languages. Even within a language, the phonemes can get warped and twisted to produce an almost infinite variety of accents. The way you pronounce things, the accent that you carry, carries so much information about your identity. We really take accents to be a great indicator of who a person is, where they're from. But as Lara has discovered, the language we use also shapes us in return.

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