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General Science / What factors affect accents?
« on: 08/05/2011 23:01:02 »
Pinchas Goldberg asked the Naked Scientists:
Hi Chris
What are the factors that affect the accents that people coming from certain places have? I understand that if I spend time with people with an English accent, I'll start talking like that, and the same with people with an American accent etc etc. My question is: Why do English people speak the way they do, and why do Americans speak the way they do? Has it got something to do with the place? If a person would grow up with no-one around, what accent would he speak with?
Thank you again for such interesting shows.
I look forward to hearing from you.
From Johannesburg
Yours
Pinchas Goldberg
What do you think?
Hi Chris
What are the factors that affect the accents that people coming from certain places have? I understand that if I spend time with people with an English accent, I'll start talking like that, and the same with people with an American accent etc etc. My question is: Why do English people speak the way they do, and why do Americans speak the way they do? Has it got something to do with the place? If a person would grow up with no-one around, what accent would he speak with?
Thank you again for such interesting shows.
I look forward to hearing from you.
From Johannesburg
Yours
Pinchas Goldberg
What do you think?