The New Zealand accent explained
Accents eh? We all have one. In linguistic terms they are defined as how people speak their language. They develop when a group of people, who all speak the same language, are isolated. Here’s a fascinating real-life example. A throng of people with different accents spend winter together in a very isolated part of the world: Antarctica. Researchers decided to track just how their speech changed during the winter. There appeared to be some convergence in how those people spoke during thos...
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