Latest Accent Stories

Hyundai is launching fully revamped fourth generation of Accent for buyers in India. Delhi, Delhi (PRWEB) April 09, 2013 Hyundai is all set to launch the fourth generation Accent for car lovers in India. A researcher at Gaadi.com, India’s leading online portal for posting the particulars about used and new cars, claims that the new car in the Indian car market will have additional features to meet specific requirements from buyers. Gaadi.com insinuates that Hyundai will be introducing...

Researchers at The University of Nottingham have developed a unique computer program that helps Asian students to improve their understanding of accented English speech in noisy environments. The team of researchers from the Schools of Psychology, Education, and English, recognized that some Asian students find it difficult to understand the range of different English accents spoken. They identified that some Asian students have particular difficulties with differentiating sounds at the...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ACCENT Marketing Services, a member of the MDC Partners Network and provider of customer engagement solutions, received top honors at the 2012 ContactCenterWorld.com North American Top Ranking Performers Conference. Earlier this year out of thousands of applicants, three ACCENT employees were named finalists and asked to compete for medals by presenting best practices and challenges to conference delegates last week in Orlando,...

COSTA MESA, Calif., Aug. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hyundai Accent was America's best-selling sub-compact car in July. "The all-new Accent outsold two great small cars we really respect in July - the Honda Fit and Ford Fiesta," said John Krafcik, president and CEO, Hyundai Motor America. "In fact, it was the best-selling sub-compact in the industry last month, its first full month of sales. It's a good indication that consumers are connecting with our new design, 40-mpg fuel economy, and...

A 56-year-old Oregon woman awoke from sedation after dental implant surgery speaking in a British accent, in what some say may be a case of 'foreign accent syndrome' -- a rare, but very real, speech disorder.Appearing Thursday on NBC's "Today" show, Karen Butler of Toledo, OR, described the accent as an odd mixture of Irish, Scottish and northern British, with perhaps a dash of Australian and South African."And I can't make it be something that it isn't. You can pretend to have a...

NEW YORK, April 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyundai Motor America introduced the all-new 2012 Accent with best-in-class standard fuel economy and power at the New York International Auto Show today. This marks the U.S. debut of the latest version of the popular subcompact sedan and the new top-of-the line, more functional Accent five-door. The 2012 Accent is slated to hit dealerships this summer. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click:...

As the global economy continues to diversify, multi-national corporations and companies have found that consistency in communication organization-wide is essential. All English speakers have accents, but the problem arises when it results in reduced intelligibility and comprehensibility in communication. As a solution, Executive Language Training has launched a series of customized foreign Accent Reduction programs to help executives develop effective communication skills and allow them...

NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Accents are a funny thing. Certain ones prompt stereotypical thought, which might be why people often deny having an accent. Yet, when asked about various attributes, Americans living in the East, Midwest and South all give more flattering responses about the accents from their areas than do adults from elsewhere. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100517/NY06256LOGO ) These are some of the results of The Harris Poll® of 2,331 adults...

A foreign accent undermines a person's credibility in ways that the speaker and the listener don't consciously realize, new research at the University of Chicago shows.Because an accent makes a person harder to understand, listeners are less likely to find what the person says as truthful, researchers found. The problem of credibility increases with the severity of the accent."The results have important implications for how people perceive non-native speakers of a language, particularly...

Do you speak English as a second language well, but still have trouble understanding movies with unfamiliar accents, such as Brad Pitt's southern accent in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds? In a new study, published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, Holger Mitterer (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) and James McQueen (MPI and Radboud University Nijmegen) show how you can improve your second-language listening ability by watching the movie with subtitles"”as long as...