The teams research ispublishedtoday inEvolutionary Human Sciences.
The sentences include words that are particular tells for whether the speakers accent was authentic or spoofed.
For example, for some people the word bath rhymes with path; for others, with moth.
A street in Edinburgh, Scotland.Photo: Reinhold Möller
These differences make up what we can call accent-specific signals linked with regions across the UK and Ireland.
The participants recordings were played in 2 to 3 second clips for other participants.
Listeners from Essex, Bristol, and London were the least accurate.
Thats one side of the coin.
That work did not indicate how convincing the Irish brogue was.
I think wed all be better off not trying.
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