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September 14, 2016

HOW WE SPEAK IS A HABIT!

How we speak is simply a habit. It is an over-learned behavior that is stored as a complete program somewhere in the brain. When you begin to speak, thinking of what you want to say, you do not think about HOW you speak, just WHAT you will say. Why? Because HOW we speak is a habit. Sometimes HOW …

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August 6, 2016

WHY WE DON’T BELIEVE NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS

Download Why We Don't Believe This article, conducted at the University of Chicago in 2007, shows that Americans do not view others who have foreign accents as being as credible or believable as those who do not have foreign accents. This is unfortunate and not fair, for America was founded by …

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August 5, 2016

VIEWPOINT: WHAT BRAIN RESEARCH CAN TELL US ABOUT ACCENT MODIFICATION

Download Brain Research Dr. Ojakangas who is a neuroscientist, as well as a speech pathologist, published this article in 2014 describing many of the ways that brain research findings can be applied to accent modification. In this article, she reviews the motor learning and habit formation …

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