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  2. Foreign accent syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Foreign accent syndrome is a rare medical condition in which patients develop speech patterns that are perceived as a foreign accent [ 1] that is different from their native accent, without having acquired it in the perceived accent's place of origin. Foreign accent syndrome usually results from a stroke, [ 1] but can also develop from head ...

  3. Accent (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual. [ 1] 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 (an ethnolect), their caste or ...

  4. Foreign accent - Wikipedia

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    Foreign accent. Foreign accent may refer to: accent (sociolinguistics) diacritic, an accent mark in writing. non-native pronunciations of English. Anglophone pronunciation of foreign languages. foreign accent syndrome. Category: Disambiguation pages.

  5. Regional accents of English - Wikipedia

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    The accents of English in Wales are strongly influenced by the phonology of the Welsh language, which more than 20% of the population of Wales speak as their first or second language. The North Wales accent is distinct from South Wales. North East Wales is influenced by Scouse and Cheshire accents.

  6. Accent perception - Wikipedia

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    Accent perception. Accents are the distinctive variations in the pronunciation of a language. They can be native or foreign, local or national and can provide information about a person’s geographical locality, socio-economic status and ethnicity. [1] The perception of accents is normal within any given group of language users and involves ...

  7. Linguistic discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic discrimination (also called glottophobia, linguicism and languagism) is unfair treatment of people based on their use of language and the characteristics of their speech, including their first language, their accent, the perceived size of their vocabulary (whether or not the speaker uses complex and varied words), their modality, and ...

  8. Received Pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    Received Pronunciation (RP) is the accent traditionally regarded as the standard and most prestigious form of spoken British English. [1] [2] For over a century, there has been argument over such questions as the definition of RP, whether it is geographically neutral, how many speakers there are, the nature and classification of its sub-varieties, how appropriate a choice it is as a standard ...

  9. Gerard Nolst Trenité - Wikipedia

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    Gerard Nolst Trenité (20 July 1870, Utrecht – 9 October 1946, Haarlem) was a Dutch observer of English . Nolst Trenité published under the pseudonym Charivarius (which he pronounced irregularly as [ʃaːriˈvaːrijəs] [1] ). He is best known in the English-speaking world for his poem The Chaos, which demonstrates many of the idiosyncrasies ...