Many of the patients seen by Speech Pathologists are provided with what is known as accent modification or accent reduction therapy. Everyone has a different accent depending on where they first learned to speak their mother tongue. Each language has its own specific sounds and these may differ from English in a number of ways. The biggest difference between accents, especially between different English accents is the vowels that are produced … [Read more...]

Accents differ depending on age and time as changes are constantly occurring in language. Accents can change due to external sources such as social and political circumstances or due to internal sources such as development of a person’s linguistic and phonetic knowledge. A combination of the above can cause a communities accent to change and these changes usually enter via dialect spoken by teenagers that wish to express their identity and … [Read more...]