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> In fact, according to linguist Sheila Blumstein, it's not really a foreign accent at all. Rather, it's a change in speech patterns that listeners interpret as

by xiaq 7y ago

> In fact, according to linguist Sheila Blumstein, it's not really a foreign accent at all. Rather, it's a change in speech patterns that listeners interpret as an accent — though sometimes a bad one. Well, accents are just that, differences in speech patterns.

mantap 7y ago
The difference is that an accent is a speech pattern associated with a specific locality or people. Whereas a speech pattern just means the way someone speaks.
foldr 7y ago
She said it's not a foreign accent, not that it's not an accent.