We may think of home as a place or feeling, but for Rachel Hargrave, home is connected to how we speak. Rachel Hargrave is one of 14 recipients of the Fralin Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

Younger generations are starting to sound less like their parents' accent than ever.

You may recall a column we wrote a couple of months ago about the Appalachian dialect, or the colorful use of language among local mountaineers. We received several e-mails, many from readers who ...

Accents center on the pronunciation of words, while dialects encompass pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Here, the subjects of Grant Wood's American Gothic channel speaking styles popular in ...

How branches and streams can help you in genealogy, specifically in the Appalachian Mountains or rural areas ...