Is there such a thing as a So Cal accent or West Coast accent? Can you provide proof?

Apparently - from the first source article: " 'General American' (more or less a Mid-Western and West Coast accent) " The first source is in form of an FAQ and insightful. For example, everyone has an accent though some are given more respect than others. Also, perceptions of regional accents are reported in the second source pp 44-45 (a book "Perceptual dialectology: nonlinguists' views of areal linguistics" by Dennis Richard Preston).

I have been told by friends in the corner states that people from socal and most of California have a really slight "valley girl" accent. This is for both males and females.

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