Hoagie mouth is also hoagie hand, Penn researchers studying a Philadelphia accent in American Sign Language learn.

A University of Pennsylvania linguistics professor says the Southern-inflected sound of the Philadelphia dialect is moving toward a more Northern accent. Some of Philly's trademark twangy ...

Philadelphia characters often sound like New Yorkers – think Rocky Balboa – perhaps because Philly’s nasal twang is tougher for non-natives to mimic.

“Settlement history is the single most important factor in dialect differences,” explains Sharon Ash, associate director of Penn’s linguistics lab, which has studied the Philadelphia accent ...

A University of Pennsylvania linguistics professor says the Southern-inflected sound of the Philadelphia dialect is moving toward a more Northern accent. Some of Philly’s trademark twangy ...

A University of Pennsylvania linguistics professor says the Southern-inflected sound of the Philadelphia dialect is moving toward a more Northern accent. Some of Philly’s trademark twangy ...

She says people often find the Philly accent to be strong, but they don’t always differentiate it very well from the New York accent. To the linguist’s ear, she says, Philly has a really different ...

A University of Pennsylvania linguistics professor says the Southern-inflected sound of the Philadelphia dialect is moving toward a more Northern accent. Some of Philly's trademark twangy ...

Labov says the Southern-inflected sound of the Philadelphia dialect is moving toward a more Northern accent. Some of Philly's trademark twangy, elongated vowel sounds are becoming less so, though ...

Gid eowt! A University of Pennsylvania linguistics professor says the Southern-inflected sound of the Philadelphia dialect is moving toward a more Northern accent. Some of Philly’s trademark ...

A University of Pennsylvania linguistics professor says the Southern-inflected sound of the Philadelphia dialect is moving toward a more Northern accent. Some of Philly's trademark twangy ...