» Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:31 am
Actually the usage of the soft pallet in English, Irish, Scottish, Australian, even some American accents follow them (Southern and New England) have similar speech patterns. The Largest difference is Tonality, Resonance, Inflection, Syntax, and Cadence. One can easily slide into a Southern to an English, to an Irish. (I've never heard a Scottish one but I'm sure I could do it if I heard it.) Also just to prove my point if you listen to an Irish, American, and Italian opera singers they will have the same tonality while singing and you wouldn't be able to tell which country they are from just by hearing their singing voices. I just throwing that out there, I do accents all the time, and have studied under a classically trained director. So I do know a little bit about this topic (Not much but a little.) Also I'm not saying that any one accent is better or anyone group of people are better I'm just stating that Geologically the area isn't very far apart and the speech patterns do not vary all that much.