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Thanks for the topic, bobby. I was thinking this over some last week, and I have no idea what dialect (accent), if any, my voice conveys. I've moved around quite a bit since a small child, and I think there is a period within one's youth that they begin to notice the subtle nuances and pitch of certain regional dialects when learning how to speak, and a child's mind learns how to adapt to what they hear around them. Therefore, a French baby might have the familiar accent later in life, but not if the phantom baby relocated, at maybe four years of age to Hawaii. I don't have a real firm grasp on the intracies of accent development within the scope of anthropology.

That maybe why some born and raised in Morocco for, say a period of ten years, will still continue to display their regional accent, if hypothetically, they had moved to Brazil later in life and learned both English and Portuguese to assimilate.



I still maintain I don't have a verifiable accent, and I wonder if a recognized speech analyst would come to the same conclusion.

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