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Published online 8 September 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030901-12
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Accents have advantages
A foreign tongue can be easier to understand in the mouth of a non-native.
People speaking English as a second language find each other just as intelligible as they do native English speakers, US linguists have found. The effect works regardless of the speaker's mother tongue.
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