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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PINEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — 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 ...

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.

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 ...