The Science of Accents
In the article the author, Esther Inglis Arkell, states that a person's accents varies depending where one lives. Humans are not the only ones that have accents, animals as well. She states that " Goats say bahhhh with different accents, depending on where they live" (Arkell). Babies ar ealso born with the ability to absorb any type of sound and language. At some point in our lives, we lose the ability to make certain sounds due to the fact that we cannot longer hear them. A scientists at the University of Washington did hearing tests on babies from 6 months to 1 year old. This experiment was established to understand what kind of sounds babies could hear. the scientists discovered that babies who have been around Japanese speakers, could not hear the letter "R". It was surprising that babies who have been around English speakers had a hard time distinguishing the letter "R" from "I" as well.
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