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  2. Dysprosody - Wikipedia

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    People diagnosed with the condition can comprehend language and vocalize what they intend to say, however, they are not able to control the way in which the words come out of their mouths. Since dysprosody is the rarest neurological speech disorder discovered [ citation needed ] , not much is conclusively known or understood about the disorder.

  3. Accent (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    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 social class (a social accent), or influence from their ...

  4. Foreign accent syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Foreign accent syndrome usually results from a stroke, [1] but can also develop from head trauma, [1] migraines [2] or developmental problems. [3] The condition might occur due to lesions in the speech production network of the brain, or may also be considered a neuropsychiatric condition. [4]

  5. Linguists Explain How to Change Your Accent, Like ... - AOL

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  6. Some say they can hear an 'Asian American' accent. Others ...

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    Whether we can call that an accent or not is a different question,” Andrew Cheng, an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, told NBC News.

  7. Accent perception - Wikipedia

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    Social identity theory is a theory that describes intergroup behaviour based on group membership. Markers of group membership can be arbitrary, e.g., coloured vests, a flip of a coin, etc., or non-arbitrary, e.g., gender, language, race, etc. [4] Accent is a non-arbitrary marker for group membership that is potentially more salient than most other non-arbitrary markers such as race [5] and ...

  8. Communication accommodation theory - Wikipedia

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    Howard Giles' communication accommodation theory (CAT), "seeks to explain and predict when, how, and why individuals engage in interactional adjustments with others,” [1] such as a person changing their accent to match the individual they are speaking with. Additionally, CAT studies “recipients’ inferences, attributions, and evaluations ...

  9. Rhotacism - Wikipedia

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    The beginning of the change is attested in the Freising manuscripts from the 10th century AD, which show both the archaism (ise 'which' < *jь-že) and the innovation (tere 'also' < *te-že). The shift is also found in individual lexical items in Bulgarian dialects , дорде 'until' (< * do - že -dĕ ) and Macedonian , сеѓере (archaic ...