Are babies born with accents or do they acquire them environmentally?
 

Been wondering this for quite some time tbh

Doesn’t make sense, how can a baby be born with a British accent? What if you took a baby from Britain and brought him to America. Would he still have that British accent? I don’t see why he/him or she/her would

No one is born with a language or accent, you idiot. They learn and develop it during the developmental stages based off the people they are surrounded by during their up bringing.

Would you consider a cleft palate an “accent?”

No but I’d consider no heartbeat a mute

That’s actually funny

There won’t be another post in this thread. On my life

Pfft, as if

Amazes me how zelph, known troll, gets amen to respond in earnest so often

I know nothing about this but got a theory because my Norwegian "L's" got an accent that is familiar to a municipality a a few cities away. We've never known people from that area when I was a kid, no one in the daycare or school had this either.

I think environment and exposure is what settles it. Some wake up from comas with a completely new accent, like British if they're from the US. I think it has something to do with where language is stored in our memories. My Ls (no pun intended) stems from what feels natural to vocally say, accents and language origins from something and sometimes that can be neurologically natural to do in terms of verbal communication.

#PseudoScience

Nature vs nurture ITT.

Amen stoooopid

I wish I could wake up with a british accent

Ima pull all the hoes . Feeling like I’m idris Elba xD

died at the edit for pronouns

THREAD TAKE OVER!!!!

IF YOU SPEAK MORE THAN ONE LANGUAGE WHICH ONE DO YOU THINK IN?

Mod of War is zelph?

Stupidest question ever ITT.

Really unfortunate that in 2020 zelph failed to include they/them inclusive gender pronouns. Eddie would be disappointed

They say it's whatever you've been using most recently. I've actually had this happen to me. My ex only spoke spanish. I would have whole arguments in Spanish. Then when she wasn't around id be thinking in Spanish. It's really weird.

No


No


Stop lying finny


Hahahhaha hahahha




My family basically only speak Spanish and I’ve never once thought in Spanish

Is this a serious question? Wow.

Depends on context for me. Since I write a lot in English there's certain words that just don't exist in Norwegian and vice versa. Common phrases etc. appear every once in a while as well, if someone fucks up at a party I can think "Well, sucks to be you right now".

When I visited the US for a month I found myself to be thinking in English regarding stuff we were talking about/doing. I can also envision other people in my life give advice the way I think they would have responded to questions about life.

When I was dating my Swedish ex, whenever I was a bit turned on by her through text or whatever I would think phrases/sentences/words she'd say in Swedish, and how she'd say it.

When I met my German cousin there were instances where he would exclaim "Scheisse!" One of which was in terms of our prices. When things are ridiculously priced or something along those lanes I can hear him yell that, or think it for myself in his language.

That's cuz you're retarded.

I'm actually learning sign language right now. Getting pretty good if i say so after a couple weeks. I have to THINK in sign language to SPEAK it. How do i not THINK in Spanish if I'm SPEAKING it. And i didn't grow up around Spanish, either. I learned every bit of it on my own.

Sign language is different, as its English but in short hand to be efficient. Spelling words in sign is difficult because you have to think 6 letters ahead. Short hand is great for getting big words out the way.

Spanish is English, but backwards. You can speak spanish in like English, but most adjectives are BEHIND the noun and its difficult.

To be able to hold long conversations in ANY language i feel you have to think ahead for what you're saying. So either way you're thinking in that language.

ITT white trash latinplains spanish to a native spanish speaker

New topic: Can you have an accent in sign language?

new, new topic: come back to the discord

Finny speaks two languages and can’t get a job that isn’t topping pizzas?

He’s “over qualified.”

Man my new phone won't let me dl discord lol

you can be that lady doing sign language when the dude is talking about covid.

What type of question this?

I just can’t picture a baby coming out of his mother’s tomb like “oyy mummay wheaaa is me biscuits love, yeh?”

Therefore it must be environmental

This is a great topic of discussion, why would u shut this down?

The possibilities here are endless

What’s your take cuck?

Cuck?

You tell me how i have ever displayed cuck behaviour, then ill give u my take.

These new kids are out of control, i swear to God

Look man if you have nothing to say then scram

I have alot to say

The first thing i have to say is calling you a ffffff

No no, be nice, we've worked on this

How can a baby have an accent? They don't even know how to talk

Back to the original topic, there was actually a study that shows the most optimal age to learn a new language is by 10 years old. So if you learn a language before 10, you’re not as likely to have an accent. If you learn a language after the age of 10, you’re going to have a harder time recognizing some of the nuances of the language, and you’re destined to have an accent.

This may be the most stupid thread I've seen to date in my short stay, I mean it doenst take long to look-up "accents" on wikipedia you absolute nause