From: tgpedersen
Message: 26316
Date: 2003-10-10
> certain populations tend to speak a certain way, this is mostly dueThat's
> to the influence of other members of that population.
> Basic *rules* of pronunciation seem to
> be learned in childhood and depend primarily on input from one's
> peer group (surprisingly, it depends little on the parents).
> why Arnold Schwarzenegger's kids don't speak in a heavy Austrianis
> accent, and why I speak like a Midwesterner even though my father
> from Boston.Styrian, I guess, Jörg Haider speaks English with the same accent.