Speech Therapy

noun a distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a particular country, area, or social class

verb to emphasize or give prominence to something

adjective having a particular kind of accent

• Her British accent was so refined that it was often mistaken for a native speaker.
• I love how your Southern accent comes out when you get excited.
• That dude's accent is straight up gangsta.
• The artist's unique accent in her paintings set her apart from other contemporary artists.

noun a person who studies accents, particularly in linguistics

• Accentologists study the phonetic and phonological properties of accents in different languages.
• I heard accentologists can determine where someone is from based on their accent.
• Those accentologists are like accent detectives, figuring out where people come from just by how they talk.
• To accentologists, accents are like fingerprints, each one unique and telling a story.