Accent, dialect and language change

• December 12, 2025. “Understanding Accents with Margaret Renwick.” Linell Smith. Arts & Sciences Magazine, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Johns Hopkins University.
• May 16, 2024. The Study-Abroad Accent Might Be the Real Deal. Author: Katherine J. Wu. The Atlantic.
• March 17, 2024. The Differences Between Regional Southern Accents, According To A Linguist. Author: Lauren Finney Harden. SouthernLiving.com.  

News and press mentions of NSF-funded research at the University of Georgia

• “Mobility and education are reshaping Black accents in Georgia.” Alan Flurry. Franklin College, University of Georgia. January 7, 2025.
  • “Is the Southern accent fixin’ to disappear in parts of the US South?” Mike Schneider. AP News. May 10, 2025.
  • “Why the iconic Southern accent appears to be slowly fading away.” TODAY. May 14, 2025.
• “Say Goodbye to the Drawl, Y’all.” Erica Techo. UGA Today and Georgia Magazine, Summer 2024.
• Linguistics at UGA: Studying Accents and Dialects Across the U.S. University of Georgia via YouTube.com. May 2024.
• “Classic Georgia accent fading fast.” Katie Cowart. Press Release, University of Georgia, Athens GA. September 7, 2023.
  • “Georgians are losing their Southern drawl, UGA and Georgia Tech study finds.” Morning Edition with Lisa Rayam. Atlanta, Georgia: WABE. September 12, 2023.
  • “Are Southern accents disappearing? Linguists say yes.” NPR Weekend Edition Sunday with Ayesha Rascoe. September 17, 2023.
  • “Boomers will be the last Georgians who speak with a Southern accent.” Bo Emerson, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. September 21, 2023.
  • “New Study: This American Accent is Disappearing.” Lauren Cahn, Reader’s Digest. September 27, 2023.
  • “Sorry, Y’all, Georgia’s Deep Southern Accent Is Slipping Away.” Scott Calvert, Wall Street Journal. October 2, 2023.
  • “From Paula Deen to Julia Roberts, the Georgia Drawl is fading, y’all.” María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post. October 5, 2023.
  • [COMEDY] “Gen Z dropping Southern accents.” The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. October 6, 2023.
  • “‘They call me the mouth of the South’: Study shows Southern accent is fading, here’s what locals think.” Megan Western, WMAZ Macon, GA. February 22, 2024.
• September 2022. Department of Linguistics faculty receive NSF grant to support research on endangered languages. Author: Alan Flurry. Press Release. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia.
• September 2017. Pronounced Linguistics. Author: Eric Rangus. The University of Georgia Magazine, vol. 96, no. 4: 18-19.
• June 30, 2017. The southern drawl gets deconstructed. Author: Rachel Ehrenberg. News In Brief. Science News.
• December 4, 2016. Southern Language and Siri. Author: Victoria Regis Knight. Podcast. WUGA Feature Interviews. Athens, Georgia: WUGA.
• September 14, 2016. UGA professors transcribing interviews to map out, study regional dialects. Author: Mia Falcon. The Red and Black.
• August 29, 2016. UGA Project Aims To Catalogue Diversity Of Southern Accents. Creator: Molly Samuel. All Things Considered. Atlanta, Georgia: WABE.
• August 25, 2016. NSF linguistics grant to support study of Southern language variation | UGA Today. Author: Alan Flurry. Press Release. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia.

Other news

• May 12, 2017. Shawn Foster named UGA’s first Beinecke Scholar. Author: Stephanie Schupska. Press Release. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia.
• December 16, 2012. Profesorii care predau Limba Romana la Oxford, cea mai buna universitate din Marea Britanie. 30 de studenti straini urmeaza cursul. Romania te iubesc, Pro TV. [A clip from Romanian TV in which I speak some Romanian and riff about the minimal pairs that crucially differentiate the vowels I study.]