It's partly that many of the distinctive characteristics of an accent aren't reproduced well when you sing. Vowel sounds get stretched, and the precise articulation of the consonants is lost. The result is a neutral baseline accent that sounds vaguely American.
We can't hear our own accents, or even the way our voices sound to others, because we can only hear ourselves speak within the resonance chamber called our skulls. You can only hear your voice as it really is by recording it and listening to it.
The accent depends on where they learned it, and who they learned it from. This is how we get Australian accents, Texan accents, and Glaswegian accents and the myriad of other native accents. You may not be able to hear your own accent but others (particularly those not from your area) certainly can.
"Our brains really block us from hearing what we're hearing. Until someone is taught to form the new sounds, they don't hear them. That's why a person can be in a country 30 to 40 years without losing their accent," he said.
One of the more likely reasons that singers mimic American accents when they perform is that many are taught to do so by their vocal teachers to encourage good vowel techniques. These long, neutral vowel techniques can often sound more like an American accent, and British vocal hints will be lost in the song.
They're probably just trying to sing “correctly”, producing sound from the back, which makes them sound American. I'm noticing some “r” sounds, too; I guess it's because while singing correctly one's tongue should be as relaxed as possible, which causes the “r” sounds to happen quite naturally.
'Innit? ' is a contraction of the tag question 'Isn't it? ' and people use it to prompt a response from the listener. So if someone says 'Nice weather, innit?
Research has shown that accents become permanent around the age of 12 years old. That being said, it is possible for accents to change over time or for adults to develop a subtle accent after living in a foreign country for an extended period of time.
Human beings are constantly imitating each other, copying everything from each other's facial expressions, mannerisms, even our postures. Researchers at The University of California, Riverside, found we also imitate speech patters and inflections. That is we have the capacity to imitate accents.
For most people it is possible, but as we get older it becomes more difficult. If you're an adult, and speaking English as a non-native speaker, accent free English can be very difficult to achieve. We need to teach our ears to hear the different speech patterns and then training our mouths to make the new sounds.
Yes, they do. Keen linguists and experts in foreign tongues say moans are many and varied. They come in all kinds of accents.
Sometimes wrong pronunciations and fake accents can confuse your listener. It's not authentic: Using a fake accent means that you are not being true to yourself. You are trying to mimic someone else's speech pattern, which can come across as insincere or even deceitful.
So a family that has moved from one part of the world to another may seem to have a family-specific accent, but that trait is a result of the family's shared environment—not their shared genetics.
Deaf people from different parts of the country, like hearing people, can sound different from one another when they speak. As well as having varying accents, deaf people frequently comment that they can “see” accents, because different sounds may appear different on the lips.
In most cases, an injury to the central nervous system causes foreign accent syndrome. However, a variant of this diagnosis called psychogenic foreign accent syndrome causes a person to speak with a foreign accent for psychological, not physiological, reasons.
In singing, syllables are lengthened, air flow is increased, articulation is less precise. Thus we get a more generic, neutralised accent that happens to share features with American varieties of English.
Option 1: the American accent
The most popular English accent of them all. Spread around the world by American cinema, music, television and more than 350 million North Americans (including Canadians, eh), this is the easiest accent for most people to understand, whether native speakers or non-native speakers.
Many adults with ADHD use coping strategies that help them hide their symptoms. This practice is known as ADHD masking and is especially common in women with ADHD. One type of ADHD masking — known as mirroring — involves intentionally or unintentionally mimicking the speech, movements, or behaviors of someone else.
According to a 2010 study by a research group at the University of California, Riverside, people subconsciously mimic other accents due to a phenomenon called "the chameleon effect". The chameleon effect describes our human instinct to “empathise and affiliate” with other people.
If you are below the age of five, you can expect to develop a legitimate Australian accent fairly quickly. If, on the other hand, you're old enough to have typed this question all by yourself, you're almost certainly old enough that you will always retain some vestiges of your original accent.
It's called accommodation, and it is the practice of adapting one's speech – either consciously or unconsciously – depending on whom one is speaking with.
The ability to perceive these phonemic contrasts evidently persists for several more years, as evidenced by the fact that children can learn to speak a second language without accent and with fluent grammar until about age 7 or 8.
What does it mean? Another word for friend. Common in Britain as well, but used even more enthusiastically by Aussies, who pepper the ends of their sentences with a longer, stretched out “maaaaate” that conveys friendliness and establishes a relaxed bond between the speakers.
The Australian National Dictionary explains that the Australian usages of mate derive from the British word 'mate' meaning 'a habitual companion, an associate, fellow, comrade; a fellow-worker or partner', and that in British English it is now only in working-class use.
Innit your birthday today? (UK, Australia slang, as a tag question) Contraction of isn't it. That's what I said, innit? (UK, Australia slang) Used as a replacement for any negative tag question, irrespective of person, number, and verb.