What makes accents in a voice?

Answer 1

It's what you grow up hearing, so people from one locale talk a certain way, and it's why structurally if everyone in the USA spoke English, even though it would be written the same, they all might have trouble understanding each other, y'all :P Study of the spoken language is quite amazing, and they think the "San" (formerly "bushmen") of Africa may have the oldest spoken language on earth.

Answer 2

When a standard language and pronunciation are defined by a group, an accent may be any pronunciation that deviates from that standard. However, accent is a relative concept, and it is meaningful only with respect to a specified pronunciation reference. For example, people from New York City may speak with an accent in the perception of people from Los Angeles, but people from Los Angeles may also speak with an accent in the perception of New Yorkers. Americans hear British people speaking with an accent and vice versa. Thus the concept of a person having "no accent" is meaningless. As phonologists are fond of saying, "a person without an accent would be like a place without a climate."

Answer 3

THe tounge. Usally the accent is changed when you keep on using the accent. Took my british accent to change to Amerian a vert long time. For Coffe I said Toffe because i was tought and my tounge couldnt pronounciate C

Answer 4

Well, in some languages, certain sounds are not practiced, so it is kinda hard for people to learn that sound after a lifetime. That's why children learn foreign languages when they are still young: they can adapt more easily. For instance, Koreans are not very good at "L" or "R". It is because their letter for it is actually somwhere in between. Another example is the Chinese. They have different tones for each word. "Ma" can mean horse, mother, or...(I forgot)...something, depending on how you say it. (e.g. with a high-even tone, and rising tone, and falling tone, a falling-rising tone, or neutral tone)

Answer 5

it is the positioning of the tongue and the other articulatory muscles that defines the precise quality of vowels and consonants, if the position is not the same as a native speaker's an accent arises.

Answer 6

accents often reflect typical speaking patterns of a particular region, often where one grew up or lived for a while...they can grow and change or even almost 'disappear' over time.

Answer 7

Simple answer, the intonation.

Try as well further search using "experimental phonetics" as key words.

Answer 8

Twisting of the tongue and opening of the mouth makes the real accent..

Answer 9

The fact that sometimes you native language doesn't have a certain sound and you sound different trying to immitate it...

Answer 10

Vowels mostly