Watching television can change people’s regional accents, a new study suggests.
Experts have for the first time shown that ‘active and engaged television viewing’ does help to speed up a change in language.
The study looked at how watching the television soap EastEnders is altering certain features of the Scottish accent.
Language experts at the University of Glasgow found two particular features of pronunciation typically associated with London English that were becoming increasingly apparent in the Glaswegian dialect among people who regularly watched the television soap opera.
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