Why does our environment affect our accent?

Environment doesn't affect accent, culture and society do. Environment can trivially affect vocabulary -- if there's no snow where people live, they likely won't have a word for it; the same goes with camels, at least until they learn of them. read more

Environment doesn't affect accent, culture and society do. Environment can trivially affect vocabulary -- if there's no snow where people live, they likely won't have a word for it; the same goes with camels, at least until they learn of them. read more

While these days we don’t tend to draw such strict social lines anymore, our personal perceptions, as well as those of the people around us, can still affect our judgement of a complete stranger. For example, the Birmingham accent is considered unsavoury because the area where it is most common is often associated with crime, and criminal activity in turn is associated with low intelligence. read more