Kirk Hazen receives funding from the National Science Foundation. During the 2016 presidential election, broad support for Donald Trump came from most communities in Appalachia, where he received 63 ...

During the 2016 presidential election, broad support for Donald Trump came from most communities in Appalachia, where he received 63 percent of the vote. A great deal of national attention was ...

Below is a list of speech features studied by the West Virginia Dialect Project, some of which remain common and others that have become rare. Led by linguist Kirk Hazen, the project’s researchers ...

Editor’s note: Read the full report on West Virginia University linguist Kirk Hazen’s foray into Pineville with his West Virginia Dialect Project on Page 7A. United Way of Southern West Virginia ...

In the corner of Appalachia where Tennessee meets Virginia, where this photo was taken, dialect is more southern. Mountaineers like to talk and you can tell what part of Appalachia people come from by ...

PINEVILLE, W.Va. – In a county beyond the reach of any four-lane highway, a young couple chuckles and swivels in their chairs as they start telling for posterity the story of how they met. "You want ...

To say Kirk Hazen is surprised by how some folks are reacting to his theory that there is no incorrect way of speaking is an understatement. Hazen, a 30-year-old linguistics professor at West Virginia ...

During the 2016 presidential election, broad support for Donald Trump came from most communities in Appalachia, where he received 63 percent of the vote. A great deal of national attention was ...