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I wonder, if you swapped bodies with someone who had a noticeable accent relative to your own, would you still have your accent, or theirs? Is it more of a brain thing, or a muscle memory thing?

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    There are many, many muscles involved in speech, and these muscles are stronger or weaker based on what language you...
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  5. atticwindow said: It’s both, really; there is an element of muscle memory to accents. That’s why Americans generally can’t make the clicking sound of Khosian language families, or French people struggle to pronounce the “-th” sound.
  6. thoughts-of-an-x-factor said: I’m quite sure it’s a brain thing. Accents are a learned habit, much like language.
  7. graphicambiguity said: I would think it’s more of a brain thing for the accent and while you would still have the same limits for how high and low your voice could go due to muscle, I think the way you would use the voice would be determined by the brain
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