I have a standard American accent, what about you?
I also have an American accent. The quality of my voice and the way we pronounce our vowels and consonants is drastically different from those that speak English abroad.
Accent (sociolinguistics)
Even though we both have an American accent, I'm sure ours differ a bit, since we undoubtedly interacted with folks from varying backgrounds as we grew up. I believe I have a Pennsylvanian Dutch accent.
Yes, I wonder why that is
Well, as humanity spreads across a large area, North America in this case, isolated communities form, which introduce different peculiarities to the language used.
Is that from the Amish?
Nope! The Amish descended from German immigrants, not Dutch. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if their speech was influenced by them.
Hmm it makes me wonder what new accents we'll have in the future that we havent heard yet.
contributed to the formation of the different varieties of North American accents. It is difficult to measure or predict how long it takes an accent to form. Accents from Canada, South Africa, Australia and the US for example, developed from the combinations of different accents and languages in various societies and their effect on the various pronunciations of British settlers.
In many cases, the accents of non-English settlers from the British Isles affected the accents of the different colonies quite differently. Irish, Scottish and Welsh immigrants had accents
Accent (sociolinguistics)
In sociolinguistics, an accent is a manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, location, or nation. An accent may be identified with the locality in which its speakers reside (a regional or geographical accent), the socioeconomic status of its speakers, their ethnicity, their caste or social class (a social accent), or influence from their first language (a foreign accent).
Accents typically differ in quality of the voice, pronunciation and distinction of vowels and consonants, stress,