"I'm Sakura. Sakura Nakamoto. Can you talk a minute?" Her name was Japanese, but she spoke to him in colloquial, unaccented English. He shook her hand. "Mike Brink." "I know who you are." ...

Interviews with three people — all speaking in unaccented English — were shown. “It’s a relatively small town with strong ...

My encounter with British accents had prepared me to speak clearly articulated, largely unaccented Russian, but my teachers and textbooks did not prepare me for understanding the subtleties of the ...