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 ...

Don't speak perfect Oxford English? In 2024 researchers from the University of California, Berkely, tested ChatGPT's responses to several varieties of English dialects from places like India, Ireland, ...

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 ...

(Author's note: Recent events have highlighted the need to be introspective about our role in systematic and institutionalized racism, but research on linguistic discrimination has long sought to ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Given the recent protests and riots stemming from the killing of George Floyd, many have been left wondering how racism might be infused into less obvious facets of our lives. While his death ...

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 ...