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Title: Why do people have different accents?
Description: From these notes you will know that why do people have different accents and what are the different factors that affect our accent. These notes are especially meant for UG & PG students.
Description: From these notes you will know that why do people have different accents and what are the different factors that affect our accent. These notes are especially meant for UG & PG students.
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Why do people have different accents?
First language influence
Every language has a unique pronunciation system and as little children when we learn our
first language, we internalise this pronunciation system
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This process causes the sounds to be influenced by the system of our first
language
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Geographical influence
Languages have evolved over the years with the dynamic changes in society, cultures and
people and so has the accent
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As people travelled around the world and began
settling in other countries, they brought about an influence of their language in the way they
spoke the foreign languages as well
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Socio economic influence
For many years, our has shown an evident presence of classes and ranks brought about by
the difference in economic standards and social /cultural groups
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The intermingling of these classes/ranks in
the years of the modern era has also created hybrid dialects with a different pronunciation
system
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With the
advent of students travelling to various countries to study, foreign student exchange courses
and the rising using of English in higher education-the language has evolved and developed
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In cold countries people speak with tight lips so that the extremely
cold weather does not affect them
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Similarly accents of
people from tropical countries have a more open phonetic system
Title: Why do people have different accents?
Description: From these notes you will know that why do people have different accents and what are the different factors that affect our accent. These notes are especially meant for UG & PG students.
Description: From these notes you will know that why do people have different accents and what are the different factors that affect our accent. These notes are especially meant for UG & PG students.