How Do Accents and Dialects Develop and Change and How Do New Accents Form In Countries Like Australia?

Accents and dialects develop and change for two distinct reasons, one phonetic, the other social. On the phonetic side, speech sounds change because of the way they are produced and perceived. Feel the position of your tongue against the roof of your mouth when you say the K sounds at the beginning of “key” and “car.”

The tongue makes contact farther forward in “key” than in “car,” because it is anticipating its forward position for the vowel sound EE. This more forward position has led to changes in which K sounds became CH or SH or S sounds before EE or E vowels. The Latin word “centum” began with a K sound, but Italian “cento” begins with CH and French cent with S.

These changes were among many that occurred as Latin evolved into modern Romance languages. Phonetic changes don’t happen continuously, though, because language is used to communicate. If your pronunciation is suddenly different from that of the people around you, you won’t be understood.

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