What causes people to have different accents?

Question

Humans are biologicly the same so why are our voices different?

Answer 1

If a child were raised in a particular phonetic environment, he or she would absorb the speech sounds of that environment. when you learn to talk, you tend to learn the way those around you talk. it starts at the family level, then those you meet at school, and friends as you grow up. as TV and the internet grow, accents are on the decline, but there will always be some difference from place to place. dialects start with slang, and grow from there. look at the differences between british and american... most of the differences are in slang.

Answer 2

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Firstly, consider the origin of language (which to the religious occured on the tower of babel (biblically). Secondly, each given language shapes the tongue according to the use of specific words express in complete sentences. Example: Persons who speak Spanish, when trying/or speaking english, express those word phrases and sounds according to their every day speech. To the spanish this is normal and they do not hear an accent. To the non spanish speaking, the word phrases and sound endings are different. This results in an accent.

Answer 3

People learn to speak when they are young. Adults don't like to learn how to exactly pronounce something in a new language or place and fall back on what they know from childhood. Eventually most accents get less as people become more familiar and imitate how other people speak.

Answer 4

Well, when you live in a different part of the country or the world, your culture develops it's own version od speaking and the way words sound.

Answer 5

Because human is 100% unique and adding the environment factors during their grow up (e.g they speak different native language and a lot), it make the difference.

Answer 6

climate determines the density of air going into the lungs, and the rate of vocal chord vibration.
so where you live basically shows if the population's language will be soft (Italy f.e) or with a strong accent (f. e. Germany)

Answer 7

conditions...
as you said we are biologically the same, so if we're to condition a child that way, then that child will behave that way
adults on the other hand has a interference from previous semantic knowledge as well as the accent they acquired from an earlier time

Answer 8

Accents like DNA fingerprints are specific to each and every person.

Answer 9

we live in different parts every thing differs then why not vioces

Answer 10

this is a fun answer---if you were from texas you would'nt have an accent--yua'll got it?