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@AnnaAnthro BREAKING: Man who moved to another country as a teenager adopts accent features of new home, code switches!
In this interview, the voice he uses while answering questions still has Jamaican accent features. I'm guessing if he ever goes back to the yards in Kingston he uses some form of patois...
#linguistics #sociolinguistics #patois #AAVE
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/17/1239078696/shaggys-real-voice