Fascinated by this paper that confirms my long-held belief that there is in fact an “Asian-American” accent—I can usually recognize whether someone is Chinese-American/Chinese-Canadian by the way they speak even if they were born in North America. https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1791&context=pwpl …
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Apparently, “longer voice onset times for voiceless stops and lower /ε/s and /r/s were also to be implicated in making a speaker “sound Asian.”
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More discussion on this in this r/linguistics thread:https://amp.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/5g78rf/a_classic_example_of_the_asianamerican_accent/ …
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