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Child developing an "accent", sort of?
We're in the southern US, but not an area with a strong regional accent
(dialect, among some populations, yes, accent in standard American English, no). Recently, my 4 yr old has started using a dipthong on vowels in some words, which sounds, to my ears, like a Texas twang. Neither her father nor I have this accent (I have some strange speech sounds due to my speech impairment, but she hasn't picked up on those), and neither do her teachers at school. It's pretty obviously an affectation, because it comes and goes-it seems to be something she puts in when talking to a person, but not when she's playing by herself, putting in voices for toys, and so on. She also sometimes forgets mid conversation and starts talking in what, a few days ago, would have been her normal voice. I don't think it's a problem-but it does seem rather unusual to me. Anyone else's child do this? |
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Child developing an "accent", sort of?
Donna Metler wrote:
We're in the southern US, but not an area with a strong regional accent (dialect, among some populations, yes, accent in standard American English, no). Recently, my 4 yr old has started using a dipthong on vowels in some words, which sounds, to my ears, like a Texas twang. Neither her father nor I have this accent (I have some strange speech sounds due to my speech impairment, but she hasn't picked up on those), and neither do her teachers at school. It's pretty obviously an affectation, because it comes and goes-it seems to be something she puts in when talking to a person, but not when she's playing by herself, putting in voices for toys, and so on. She also sometimes forgets mid conversation and starts talking in what, a few days ago, would have been her normal voice. I don't think it's a problem-but it does seem rather unusual to me. Anyone else's child do this? My son did this in preschool - I remember wondering if he was copying another child. Not sure if it's exactly the kind of thing you mean - but for a while he would sometimes pronounce "head" more like "hay-id", and "yes" like "yay-is". Neither his family nor his teacher pronounced the words that way - and he started out with the right pronunciation. Clisby |
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Child developing an "accent", sort of?
"Donna Metler" wrote in
: Anyone else's child do this? yes. my now 8 year old has done the 'Texas twang' thing since he was around 4 or 5, only occaisionally & only on some dipthongs, like your daughter. he also has a 'robot' like method of talking, & frequently uses a babytalk whine/inflection, both of which drive me crazy (particularly because both are linked with his echolalia, so it's the same phrase over & over & over & over...). lee |
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Child developing an "accent", sort of?
enigma wrote:
"Donna Metler" wrote in : Anyone else's child do this? yes. my now 8 year old has done the 'Texas twang' thing since he was around 4 or 5, only occaisionally & only on some dipthongs, like your daughter. he also has a 'robot' like method of talking, & frequently uses a babytalk whine/inflection, both of which drive me crazy (particularly because both are linked with his echolalia, so it's the same phrase over & over & over & over...). lee Two thoughts: 1) This sounds like perfectly normal development. He's just experimenting with the sounds or something he heard somewhere. It almost sounds like he is putting the spelling with the sounds. Whatever is going on, it sounds perfectly normal. 2) If normal kids grow out of sounding like Texans, what does this say about people in Texas? ;-) Jeff |
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Child developing an "accent", sort of?
Jeff wrote:
enigma wrote: "Donna Metler" wrote in : Anyone else's child do this? yes. my now 8 year old has done the 'Texas twang' thing since he was around 4 or 5, only occaisionally & only on some dipthongs, like your daughter. he also has a 'robot' like method of talking, & frequently uses a babytalk whine/inflection, both of which drive me crazy (particularly because both are linked with his echolalia, so it's the same phrase over & over & over & over...). lee Two thoughts: 1) This sounds like perfectly normal development. He's just experimenting with the sounds or something he heard somewhere. It almost sounds like he is putting the spelling with the sounds. Whatever is going on, it sounds perfectly normal. 2) If normal kids grow out of sounding like Texans, what does this say about people in Texas? ;-) Jeff They grow out of talking like Minnesotans. Clisby |
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Child developing an "accent", sort of?
"Donna Metler" wrote in message ... We're in the southern US, but not an area with a strong regional accent (dialect, among some populations, yes, accent in standard American English, no). Recently, my 4 yr old has started using a dipthong on vowels in some words, which sounds, to my ears, like a Texas twang. Neither her father nor I have this accent (I have some strange speech sounds due to my speech impairment, but she hasn't picked up on those), and neither do her teachers at school. It's pretty obviously an affectation, because it comes and goes-it seems to be something she puts in when talking to a person, but not when she's playing by herself, putting in voices for toys, and so on. She also sometimes forgets mid conversation and starts talking in what, a few days ago, would have been her normal voice. I don't think it's a problem-but it does seem rather unusual to me. Anyone else's child do this? #2 used to put on a Scottish accent when she talked about one of her friends whose mother was Scottish. My cousin used to put on an accent when acting. I think she was imitating Disney princess style accents. Debbie |
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Child developing an "accent", sort of?
Thanks! It's reassuring to hear that my child isn't the only one who did
this-and that she's probably not going to sound like she's going to a rodeo forever . Donna |
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