By John Glenday

A smartphone app capable of differentiating between regional English dialects for the first time has been launched by linguistics experts.

English Dialects, available on iOS and Android, aims to document the evolving nature of the spoken word in England over the past 60 years by harnessing the power of crowd sourcing to categorise voice recordings.

Researchers from the universities of Cambridge, Zurich and Bern invited people to choose their pronunciation of 26 different words before hazarding a guess at marrying up the sound with local geography.

Adrian Leemann, a researcher at Cambridge’s Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics said: “We want to document Read full story ›

Source: The Drum