LL-L "Language adaptation" 2003.12.02 (04) [E]

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From: Heinrich Becker <heinrich.becker at gmx.net>
Subject: LL-L "Language adaption" 2003.12.02 (02) [E]

>Hello Peter,
>
what you are talking about is the typical "peer effect". Young people at
the age of 10 to 15 usually adopt the dialect of their current peer
group, not of their foreign parents!. In a world of migration you'll
find a lot of examinations on the behaviour of immigrant children. Same
situation in U.S.A. as well as in France, Sweden or Germany. Parents
usually speak the language of the country they emigrated to very poorly
or with a hard accent.. But the kids use to speak Cockney, Bavarian or
even  Parisien and so on. Parents usually have less influence on the
language of their children who tend to adopt the slang of those they
feel to belong to. Others,  by exceptions of musical people or linguists
have finished their lingual developement or opportunities at the age of 17.

Regards
Heinrich Becker

>From: PPMAC56 at aol.com <PPMAC56 at aol.com>
>Subject: Accent Acquisition
>
>Hello all,
>
>I would like to know of your experiences and knowledge of accent
>acquisition. I am particularly interested in why some people, on moving
from
>one place to another, adopt the accent of their new area, and some retain
>their original accent no matter where they end up.
>
>I was born in Glasgow, and, of course, grew up with a Glasgow accent. But
>from the age of 8 till 13 I went to a boarding school in Edinburgh, and
over
>that time I acquired the accent of that area, as well as various changes to
>my vocabulary, such as saying "ken" instead of know, "dinnae" instead of
>don't, and so on. However my aunt, who was also born in Glasgow, moved down
>to London many years ago, yet still has the same accent as when she moved
>there. Here children all have London accents.
>
>Do any of you have any experiences of this phenomenon, either loss or
>retention of accent? Has any academic work been done on the subject?
>
>Look forward to hearing from you,
>
>Peter McLean.

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