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I am born and raised RI without my father however people constantly ask if I am from Cali. (my father is from Long Beach)

2007-04-04 12:36:11 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Languages

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Not really, in the case of accents it's a product of your environment.
As you grow up and learn to speak from your parents and those around you, you also pick up the localized or regional pronunciation of the words (example: a Southern accent).
For example, how many young Americans have you seen who have moved to England and now after they've grown, they speak with the same dialect as the Brits?

2007-04-04 12:44:01 · answer #1 · answered by GeneL 7 · 0 0

Sorry, but speech patterns are learned, or unlearned, such as things may be.

I was born and raised in Missouri but you would never guess it. I cultivated a Mid-Atlantic accent when I lived in England and my French has a British accent but my Spanish has a South American accent.

I don't talk through my nose nor do I say every vowel with a slight laugh which seems to be what the current dim witted pop culture types do

2007-04-04 19:48:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I don't think accent or speech pattern is hereditary. My father is English, my mother is Scottish and I was born in Ireland, and have been told I have an American accent (I spent two weeks in New York when I was 5).

2007-04-05 22:42:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Most people get their accent from their peers in the school yard not from their parents and family. A good demonstration of this is to look at migrant families. The parents have an accent from their homeland but the children speak with the local accent which they learnt in school. Accents are not hereditary, they are learnt.

2007-04-04 19:44:20 · answer #4 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0 0

Speech is learned and copied, not inherited.
I live in an area where southern accents are common, and for a brief period of time in my younger years I've moved north and everyone made comments about my accent.
I only lived up north for nine months, but by the time I left I had dropped the accent.
Therefore I think it safe to say that an accent is not inherited, but copied subconciously.

2007-04-04 19:48:54 · answer #5 · answered by octo75 4 · 0 0

Well, it's certainly not genetic. But having your father around when you were learning to talk gave you speech patterns, which you emulated (learned) because of your exposure to them.

Such speech patterns are really the simplest and most minor forms of a dialect, or regional language.

No doubt his family in CA think you speak like any other New Englander.

2007-04-04 19:44:31 · answer #6 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0 0

no, it is not, but if you started living in a place with a certain accent you'll have that accent, but if you are born in another country even though your parents are from other place you'll copy the accent of that region

2007-04-04 19:53:12 · answer #7 · answered by LuissM 2 · 0 0

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