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  Children link accents with intelligence from the age of five, says study By age five, children already associate a standard southern English accent with intelligence. Children exposed to a wider var iety of accents at home show less bias and are more accepting of different accents. Early accent biases are shaped by soci alization, not innate, and can be addressed through exposure and awareness. Hey, it’s Rex here, reporting on a fascinating study published in  The Conversation  that dives deep into how young children start linking accents with intelligence-long before most of us would expect. The research, led by a team at the University of Essex, set out to explore whether five-year-olds already have unconscious biases about accents. They worked with 27 children in Essex, introducing them to two cartoon characters: one described as “clever” and the other as “not clever.” After this introduction, the kids listened to audio clips of different UK accents and then com...