Where do accents come from?
Brains On! Science podcast for kids
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How Accents Can Affect Your Identity
How some one speaks can be a very important part of their identity. Sometimes people believe untrue and unfair things about people based on accents. Nicol is a professor at pomona college, and she's inerested in socio linguistics. She explains that sometimes when people point out that some one has an accent, they're just sort of noticing it,. But other times it's more negative, like a complaint.
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