As you can probably guess from these questions, to find out what people from the United States sound like, you have to explore multiple American accents. The task of dividing the country into discrete accent boxes is still pretty difficult. The lines between regions are blurry, the way people talk is constantly changing and a relatively small area can have people speak any number of different ways.
This hub, then, presents a growing but incomplete list of some of the most distinctive American accents around today. REALITY: The notion of dialect exists apart from the social status of the language variety; there are socially favored as well as socially disfavored dialects.
REALITY: Dialect speakers acquire their language by adopting the speech features of those around them, not by failing in their attempts to adopt standard language features. MYTH: Dialects have no linguistic patterning in their own right; they are derivations from standard speech.
REALITY: Dialects, like all language systems, are systematic and regular; furthermore, socially disfavored dialects can be described with the same kind of precision as standard language varieties. REALITY: Dialects are not necessarily positively or negatively valued; their social values are derived strictly from the social position of their community of speakers. Source: Wolfram, W. American Varieties Standard American?
Official American The Power of Prose. For such a geographically small area, New York City certainly has a bunch of distinctive accents. But in general, its accents evolved from a mixture of its Dutch and English roots and numerous waves of immigration.
A modern speaker from New York probably won't sound like what you hear in movies like "Hey, I'm walking here! I'm walking here! They're more likely to say "Deep dish pizza is not not only better than New York pizza, it's not pizza. Nowadays, someone from Philly might say "We're a regular family.
We watch Philly jawn on TV. We go down to the Jersey Shore. But when we want great hoagies, discount prices on beer, and a great atmosphere we go to Lee's Hoagies in Horsham, PA. The southern coast of the United States has a variety of different accents. One example is Southern coastal white. Other southern dialects preserved some of the original remnants to this day. They're right in Brunswick or Savannah or Jacksonville. Just like New England and the East Coast itself, it is more densely populated, with little pockets of immigrants from other countries.
Once you start going west, many of the regional dialects will span states, with Texas alone having just two: Southwestern and Gulf Southern.
The entire West Coast will only encompass three dialects, and these areas are also known for having more of a neutral accent: Pacific Northwest, Pacific Southwest, and some Southwestern just like in Texas. Due to Hollywood films, most can detect the New Yorker accent quite quickly. But where does it come from? A sociolinguistics professor out of NY says it is a knockoff of British English.
Also in Boston and Rhode island, there is a similar happening. When I was living in Boston, some of my Massachusetts and Rhode Island friends would call me Miker, instead of Micah, because they were dropping the H sound at the end and adding an R. So H and R are opposite of each other when at the end of the word.
Water becomes wahdah, and Micah becomes Miker. The Southern accent which is actually about 7 distinct accents is also very well-known in the United States and one of the more obvious dialects. Another feature is long, drawn-out vowels.
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