Trump and Sanders: Two ways of sounding like a New Yorker

Usually, TELL studies English from Texas. But on occasion, we look beyond the state line and study speech in other locations -- as in our recent study of the New York City accent. In the speech of two of the 2016 candidates for president of the United States.

The full blog on this research is available here.

Speech in the 2014 Texas gubernatorial race

Here is an interview (from KUT Austin) about the TELL study of Texas accent features in the speech of gubernatorial candidates Greg Abbott and Wendy Davis. It discusses findings from this blog post.