The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

What causes foreign accents?

The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

Steven H. Weinberger [+-]
George Mason University
Steven H. Weinberger is Associate Professor and Director of the Linguistics program at George Mason University in Virginia. He teaches courses in phonetics, phonology, and second language acquisition. His principal research deals with language sound systems and foreign accents. He is co-editor of Interlanguage Phonology: The Acquisition of a Second Language Sound System (1987), and he is the founder and curator of the Speech Accent Archive (http://accent.gmu.edu/), a Web database of thousands of different accents in English.

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Foreign accents have been around for as long as humans have had language.While many factors influence foreign accents, much of the answer lies in something linguists call ‘language transfer’.

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Weinberger, Steven H.. What causes foreign accents?. The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 136-139 Apr 2012. ISBN 9781908049490. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=20788. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.20788. Apr 2012

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