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The regional accents of English speakers show great variation across the areas where English is spoken as a first language. This article provides an overview of the many identificable variations in pronunciation, usually deriving from the phoneme inventory of the local dialect, of the local variety of Standard English between various populations of native English speakers. Local accents are part of local dialects. Any dialect of English has unique features in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. The term "accent" describes only the first of these, namely, pronunciation. See also: List of dialects of the English language. Non-native speakers of English tend to carry over the intonation and phonemic inventory from their mother tongue into their English speech. For more details see Non-native pronunciations of English. Among native English speakers, many different accents exist. Some regional accents, such as Pennsylvania Dutch English, are easily identified by certain characteristics. Further variations are to be found within the regions identified below; for example, towns located less than from the city of Manchester such as Bolton, Oldham and Salford, each have distinct accents, all of which form the Lancashire accent, yet in extreme cases are different enough to be noticed even by a non-local listener. There is also much room for misunderstanding between people from different regions, as the way one word is pronounced in one accent (for example, ''petal'' in American English) will sound like a different word in another accent (for example, ''pearl'' in Scottish English). For a summary of the differences between accents, see International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects. ==Overview== English accents are typically divided into two groups: the English of England (BrEng), and English in North America (AmEng). Dialects differ greatly in their pronunciation of open vowels. In Received Pronunciation, there are four open back vowels, , but in General American there are only three, , and in most dialects of Canadian English only two, . In addition, which words have which vowel varies between dialects. Words like ''bath'' and ''cloth'' have the vowels in Received Pronunciation, but in General American. The table above shows some of these dialectal differences, and gives the names for the mergers and splits that created them. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Regional accents of English」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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