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
and prosody. Although grammar, semantics, vocabulary, and other language characteristics often vary concurrently with accent, the word "accent" may refer specifically to the differences in pronunciation, whereas the word "dialect" encompasses the broader set of linguistic differences. Often "accent" is a subset of "dialect".
History.
As human beings spread out into isolated communities, stresses and peculiarities develop. Over time, they can develop into identifiable accents. In North America, the interaction of people from many ethnic backgrounds
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,