<div><div><p>Dr Lauren Hall-Lew, a lecturer in sociolinguistics, talks about her research into tourist attitudes to Scottish accents.</p><p>Lauren and her team hit the streets of Edinburgh during a recent Edinburgh Festival Fringe to quiz tourists about their attitudes to Scottish accents in different contexts.</p><p>Can we think of accents as a commodity like shortbread or tartan?&nbsp;<br>Does authenticity matters to tourists, even if it means they can’t understand what someone is saying?</p></div></div>

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