How Do You Understand The Difference Between Accents And Dialects?
Most people are familiar with the New York accent, the Boston accent and the Southern accent. However, the term “accent” really refers only to pronunciation. There are different pronunciations, different vocabularies, different phrases and different grammatical rules that have been documented all over the United States. These are what are known as “dialects.” Here’s how to distinguish between the two terms. A dialect is generally considered a mutually intelligible variety of a language. What this means is a dialect is different from a language in that different dialects of the same language can be understood by anyone who speaks the language, while different languages can not be understood by people who don’t share a language. Just as most everyone speaks a language, everyone also speaks some dialect or another of that language. The formation of a dialect begins when people from different language backgrounds come together and learn to speak a common language. The influence of the lang
