In this episode, Alex & Julia tackle the hypothesis: Your accent unconsciously changes to fit in with the crowd. They talk the chameleon effect, mouth fonts, Nepal, and much more…

 

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Resources/References:

The neuroscience of accent: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00639/full

Knowing which accent listening to can help process speech: https://neurosciencenews.com/accented-speech-neuroscience-6456/

Accents and trust: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1747021819865833

Foreign Accent Syndrome case study: https://neurosciencenews.com/cerebellum-foreign-accent-syndrome-4159/

Chameleon effect review: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1025389814290

Imitation of accent positively influences views of speaker: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00280/full

Babies “silent rehearsal” of words: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/accents-are-forever-35886605/

Accent softening in the UK: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/20/ugly-rise-accent-softening-people-changing-their-voices