She spoke in mild accents.
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Accents
/ˈæk.sɛnts/
Synonyms for "accents" (27 found)
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9 entriesdiacritic symbolemphasisfocuslinguistic featurenotationorthographic markphonetic featurepronunciationprosodic feature
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12 entriesacute accentcircumflex accentdiacritic markingforeign accentgrave accenthighlightregional accentregional pronunciationstresssyllable stressunderscoreword stress
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9 entriesaccent marksaccented pronunciationacute accentcircumflex accentdiacritic marksforeign accentgrave accentregional accentsyllable stress
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10 total sentences available.
When dubbing Japanese TV series in English, characters from Osaka are sometimes given a Texas accent. Both Southern and Kansai accents are distinctive in their respective languages.
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The Kansai dialects are said to have a "sing-song" quality because their pitch accents differ from standard Japanese, which comes from the Tokyo dialect.
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There are many people in the world studying English, so English people are used to learners' non-standard accents, their grammatical errors and so on.
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