Does an accent really effect comprehension?

CBC News, The Montreal Gazette and Global Montreal features the research of Pavel Trofimovich, a professor of educational psychology and applied linguistics, on the effect of accents on comprehensibility. This article is reprised in The Ottawa Citizen. The research was also discussed on The University of Bristol website as well as in Medical Xpress and The Iconoclast News.

Trofimovich’s co-author, Talia Isaacs, a professor at the University of Bristol, is interviewed by RCI’s Anne-Marie Yvon: RCI (audio clip).