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what is the differance between these words accent and dialect
Nov 13, 2009 12:09 PM
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An accent is the way a word is pronounced. People with different accents will use the same words, but will pronounce them differently. For example, "pass" is pronounced "pæs" in the US, but "pɑːs" in the UK. A dialect is a slight variation in a language. People speaking different dialects will use different words for the same purpose. For example, people in the US refer to an "elevator", while in the UK it is called a "lift."
November 13, 2009
Hello Sama, ACCENT: Someone who speaks with a particular" accent "pronounces the words of a language in a distinctive way that shows which country, region, or social class they come from. "He had developed a slight British accent." DIALECT : A dialect is a form of a language that is spoken in a particular area. "In the fifties, many Italians spoke only local dialect." "They began to speak rapidly in dialect."
November 14, 2009
accent= a characteristic pronunciation, especially: a. One determined by the regional or social background of the speaker. b. One determined by the phonetic habits of the speaker's native language carried over to his or her use of another language. dialect= a regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists: Cockney is a dialect of English. b. A variety of language that with other varieties constitutes a single language of which no single variety is standard: the dialects of Ancient Greek.
November 14, 2009
Dialect is a form of language that is spoken in one area with words or grammar that are slightly different from the other areas but accent is the way someone pronounces the words of a language ,showing which country or which part of country they come from.
November 13, 2009
Generally speaking, they're both versions of a language that are similar. However, unless someone has a "strong accent," two speakers of one language with different accents can still understand each other. Also, an accent is not necessarily associated with a region or group of speakers. Someone who learns a second language may "speak with an accent" in that language. Someone with a lisp may also be described as "having an accent." A dialect, on the other hand, generally means more than one speaker, and it also is distinct enough from another language that it can't be fully understood by a similar language. This idea in linguistics is called "not mutually intelligible." Some real-life examples would be English and Arabic. English is said to have many accents (british, american, indian etc), whose vocabulary and usage is almost identical. Arabic, on the other hand, has certain grammatical features that vary from country to country where it is spoken, and so in some cases a speaker from, say, Egypt might use different negation from someone from the UAE.
November 13, 2009
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