Researchers at the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology conducted a cross-generational study of Georgians, finding that their accents are gradually fading.
"Today’s college students don’t sound like their parents, who didn’t sound like their own parents," she continued.
The Georgia Arch, University of Georgia. Linguists at the University of Georgia helped conduct the collaborative study. Dr. Lelia Glass, a professor in the School of Modern Languages at the Georgia Institute of Technology, known more colloquially as Georgia Tech, explained that researchers used a computer and transcribed audio to estimate speakers' tongue placement while pronouncing each vowel.
"We are seeing similar shifts across many regions, and we might find people in California, Atlanta, Boston and Detroit that have similar speech characteristics," he said.
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