American, Canadian and Austrailian dialects.?

This isn't as complex as you might believe. Yet, it's also not as simple. First of all, American English isn't uniform, just as British English isn't as well. The different parts of the country were influenced by different dialects of British English.

For example, the Southern Dialects were influences by Slaves who were brought over, and they also have Scotch-Irish influence, which was heavy there.

In the North, it was more influenced by the Puritians who settled in that area. That's why they drop some of their <r>s just as some dialects of British does still (I pahked my cah in Havahd yahd).

In my own state of Pennsylvania, just west of my area (Philly), there is a German influence, especially since there is the Pennsylvanian Dutch dialect of German, but it shows up in some phrases in English.

I know other regionally dialects are affected by who settled there, so remember that.

Now Australia has a heavy Cockney influence, so that even now both accents have the shift from /aj/ (the sound like ie in tie) to /oj/ (the oy in boy). As well as the shift from /ej/ to /aj/ and others. (Consult My Fair Lady or a dialect book, or me, for more info on their vowel shifts). Remember that Australia was a prision colony, and many of the prisioners were Irish or Cockney, sometimes more low class people of Britian.

Canada has a lot of Influences, like from the States, and from other settlements from the British.

But here is another thing in recent years.... the dialects are possibly moving together into a new standard. The reason for the change away from it was the Isolation, well with the media today, there is less and less isolation. So children in all the English speaking countries are hearing British, Irish, American, Australian and other accents, and there is a change they might merge and become a standard again.

A lot of this has to do with how isolated the two continents are from England. I dont know if I would say that The english spoken in england is "more advanced" I would just say that it is "differently influenced" Depending on the dominant nationality of settlers in the area, Each region of the US has an distinct accent. (the south, the midwest, northeast..etc)

The other factor is what kind of accent were you exposed to when you were a kid and learning how to speak. I have relatives in my grandparents' generation who are from england have an english accent. ( i am an american from the midwest) I dont have an english accent and neither does my mom. Although, we do have certain english influences in the way we speak. my cousins have an english accent mostly because some of my great aunts and uncles stayed in england. So based on my experiences, I would say it takes a miniumum of one or two generations for people to loose their accent. I have never heard of people starting out with an english accent and have it comletely disappear later in life. But it might happen for some people.

Speaking in terms of american settlers, it might have taken a longer time (in generations) for them to loose their accent. They didnt have TV or Sesame Street or even schools. Most people stayed where they were settled because they didnt have cars or planes. So im going to say that the american accents heard today started out as english and was influenced by the many languages of future settlers.

Actually the process is the reverse of your description. It's not that Americans, Canadians and Australians changed so much as they were isolated and so *stopped* changing while language in the UK moved on.

You see the same thing with Canadian French.

If you examine the language you will see that the dialects use older more formal structures, and outdated words whereas the UK version has tended to simplify the language.

But of course there are separate influences once they split (in which case *all* of the dialects change - including the UK version of the language). Australians, Canadians and Americans all have some influences from the languages of their native peoples. The US dialect is also influenced by Spanish, Canadian by French, and all of the countries' dialects are constantly being influenced by the immigrants that come there - even in the UK. This causes them all to head in different directions from one another.

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I'm not sure...but this is a good question.. Languages never cease to evolve...so the only question that I see is in regard to the time it takes...and I don't know...sorry......

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