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Dialect Is Learned From a Speech Community, Not Inherited

The factual foundation the perception cluster stands on, and the counterweight to the whole anatomical framing of the path so far. How a person's vowels, consonants and rhythm come out is acquired from the people they grow up speaking with. This is a separate teaching object from what listeners do with those cues, which is why it is its own node.

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Why can an adult's accent shift after several years living somewhere new?

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Accent (sociolinguistics)

An accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a region, social class, ethnicity or individual, covering vowels, consonants, stress and prosody. Accents are acquired: infants bui…