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NAS82817

HI, 

I have a daughter with ASD she is 5, I have a question that I'm hoping someone may be able to answer for me.

She speaks with an American accent even though we are British and she is around very strong Yorkshire accents, I sometimes wonder if this will be something she may grow out of or if she will always speak with the accent.

I'm just looking to see if others have grown out of it and lost the accent they used to speak in. 

I look forward to reading some replies.

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  • Google Echolalia! It will explain the phenomena and it is an autistic classic. And she may never grow out of it - I never have - although she may turn out to be an excellent mimic of other accents and may turn out to be good at drama.

    You know, one of the reasons I was bullied at school was that I sounded "posh". I sounded nothing like either my Geordie parents or Warwickshire peers with a strong dialect.

    At university I studied linguistics, realised my mother's descriptions of my language acquisition did not fit the normal model, nor had I ever converged to my peers' accent as theory dictates I should have. My university pals could never exactly place where in the UK I was from and as linguists too they'd be more skilled in that than your average person.

    I sounded more BBC, your kid is mirroring American Telly. She may turn out to be a good mimic of other accents. I am. I'm a good actress and a language graduate, but I have no actual natural UK accent.

    It happens basically because the driver of our learning is copy the authoritative source (the telly) to do it and therefore communicate need efficiently, rather than the social driver that most NTs have; I copy you (your/my peers accent) to interact and relate to you....Bell's Accomodation Theory...won't bore you with my explanation of undergrad linguistics, lol. Basically our language learning is all about function and efficiency, not social or relational goals as most people's is.

    After many years living abroad and in London, I now live where I was born. No one believes I am local. I sound nothing like and I am 57.

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