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Posh accents make you sound clever, say kids - it's bad for Yorkshire

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Researchers from the University of Essex studied 27 five-year-olds .

Found youngsters associate people with middle-class accents as being more intelligent.

Yorkshire accent linked to a lack of intelligence, while Essex accent is stigmatised.

Researchers hope to follow-up by investigating a larger pool of children across a bigger age range.

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