Australia is a pretty multicultural country, attracting around 190,000 permanent migrants from around the world each year. And chances are you know someone with a foreign accent.
But have you ever wondered what makes up an accent, or why someone might want to change theirs? What can accents tell us about each other and the society we live in? Accent is a part of communication but does modifying it interfere with our identity? Gillian Aeria takes a deep dive into the topic and meets some people who work with modifying them.
Featuring speech pathologist Sam Harvey, linguistic consultant Dr Duncan Markham from Ear and Speakand his clients Leon* and Sam Yam, and employment lawyer Andrew Jewell from McDonald Murholme.
Discrimination case referred to:
Philip v State of New South Wales [2011] FMCA 308 (10 June 2011)
PRODUCED by GILLIAN AERIA
'Starling' and 'Across the River' by Podington Bear (CC BY-NC 3.0)
'Thread of Clouds' by Blue Dot Sessions (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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