"An accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual."
A distinctive way of pronouncing words that is associated with a particular region, social group, or language learner.
Vowels: The sounds produced by the voice with free airflow through the mouth, varying in tongue position, lip rounding, and tension.
Consonants: The sounds produced by the voice with closure or obstruction in the oral cavity, varying in articulation of places, manner, and voicing.
Stress: The emphasis given to syllables in words, phrases or sentences, affecting loudness, pitch, length and quality.
Intonation: The melodic variation in pitch, contour, and rhythm of speech, conveying attitude, emotion, and meaning.
Rhythm: The timing and flow of speech, determined by the number and length of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Pronunciation: The articulation of sounds, words, and phrases, influenced by native language, dialects, accents and speech communities.
Accentuation: The use of stress, pitch, loudness, and duration to highlight or differentiate words, phrases or sentences.
Articulatory phonetics: The study of the anatomy and physiology of speech organs, their movements and positions in producing sounds.
Acoustic phonetics: The study of sound waves and their properties, such as frequency, amplitude, and duration, in relation to speech sounds.
Perceptual phonetics: The study of how listeners perceive and interpret speech sounds, including phoneme identification, discrimination, and categorization.
Phonology: The study of the sound system of a language, comprising of phonemes, allophones, sound patterns, and rules.
Dialectology: The study of regional, social, and cultural variations in speech sounds, vocabulary, and grammar within a language.
Sociolinguistics: The study of how social factors, such as class, gender, age, and ethnicity, affect the use and perception of language.
Second Language Acquisition: The study of how learners acquire a new language, including pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and communicative competence.
Language and identity: The study of how individuals and groups use language to construct and express their social identity, ethnicity, and culture.
American English: Regional accents such as Southern, Bostonian, and New York.
British English: Received Pronunciation (RP), Cockney, Estuary, Manchester, and Liverpool accents.
Australian English: General Australian, Cultivated Australian, and Broad Australian.
Indian English: Hinglish, Benglish, and Tanglish.
South African English: General South African, Cape Flats, and Natal Indian.
Canadian English: Standard Canadian, Newfoundland, and Quebec French.
Irish English: Dublin, Cork, and Galway.
Scottish English: Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen.
New Zealand English: General New Zealand and Maori English.
Jamaican English: Rastafarian, Kingston, and Montego Bay.
Singaporean English: Singlish.
Nigerian English: Pidgin English and Standard Nigerian English.
Philippine English: Taglish.
Malaysian English: Manglish.
Hong Kong English: Kongish.
Japanese English: Janglish.
Chinese English: Chinglish.
French English: Franglais.
"An accent may be identified with the locality in which its speakers reside (a regional or geographical accent), the socioeconomic status of its speakers, their ethnicity (an ethnolect), their caste or social class (a social accent), or influence from their first language (a foreign accent)."
"Accents typically differ in quality of voice, pronunciation and distinction of vowels and consonants, stress, and prosody."
"No, although grammar, semantics, vocabulary, and other language characteristics often vary concurrently with accent, the word 'accent' may refer specifically to the differences in pronunciation, whereas the word 'dialect' encompasses the broader set of linguistic differences."
"'Accent' is often a subset of 'dialect.'"
"An accent may be identified with the locality in which its speakers reside (a regional or geographical accent)."
"An accent may be identified with the... socioeconomic status of its speakers."
"An accent may be identified... their ethnicity (an ethnolect)."
"An accent may be identified... their caste or social class (a social accent)."
"An accent may be identified... influence from their first language (a foreign accent)."
"Accents typically differ in quality of voice, pronunciation and distinction of vowels and consonants, stress, and prosody."
"Although grammar, semantics, vocabulary, and other language characteristics often vary concurrently with accent..."
"The word 'accent' may refer specifically to the differences in pronunciation..."
"...whereas the word 'dialect' encompasses the broader set of linguistic differences."
"'Accent' is often a subset of 'dialect.'"
"Accents typically differ in... pronunciation and distinction of vowels and consonants."
"Accents typically differ in... stress."
"Accents typically differ in quality of voice..."
"Accents typically differ in... prosody."
"Although grammar, semantics, vocabulary, and other language characteristics often vary concurrently with accent..."