Hi, I was, for quite a long time, curious about the language accents origins. Never found a serious explanation, nor texts dealing with the issue.
I mean, every major spoken language (english, french, german, spanish, italian, etc.) got regional accents, even more, in regions like America, from Mexico to the Southern Pole where we speak, with few exceptions, the same, every country features a distinctive accent, easily recognizable for the native spoken. More so, every country got distinctive accents, state to state (or province), again easily regognizable for the native. Same for english and others languages, I suppose, (I'm 100% sure about the Italian different regions accents, cause I lived in this country for many years).
Why so? what mechanism drives to develop a distinctive regional accent?
I mean, every major spoken language (english, french, german, spanish, italian, etc.) got regional accents, even more, in regions like America, from Mexico to the Southern Pole where we speak, with few exceptions, the same, every country features a distinctive accent, easily recognizable for the native spoken. More so, every country got distinctive accents, state to state (or province), again easily regognizable for the native. Same for english and others languages, I suppose, (I'm 100% sure about the Italian different regions accents, cause I lived in this country for many years).
Why so? what mechanism drives to develop a distinctive regional accent?