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Children Link Posh Accents to Intelligence, Yorkshire Dialects Viewed as Less Clever
Posh Accents Linked to Intelligence by Children, Study Finds (Images: 1. Children discussing accents 2. Yorkshire landmarks 3. Diverse group of kids) Children as young as five associate middle-class accents with higher intelligence, according to a University of Essex study. Researchers tested 27 five-year-olds, revealing biases toward Standard Southern British English (SSBE), Yorkshire, and Essex […]