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I'm interested in how to go about answering the following. I just need the pointers to start with, as my query is about how to start.
I'm curious as to how any individual's speech becomes unique. One can recognize a particular person's voice sometimes quite easily from very small parts, and during a long association, one can become intimately familiar with it.
So starting from, say, me, I can see an expanding circle of "linguistic consideration"':
My individual voice (the actual tonality)
cadence
mannerisms
nuances
meanings and implications (semantics?)
accent
dialect
the language I am speaking
I am completely naive about the entire field and do intend to read a freshman text on linguistics. However, I would like to know the process (ie as many of the things - jargon/formal terms etc) that might be involved in going from say English as the language spoken and understood by many, to my own individual speech.
I used the term ''linguistic considerations'' because I can guess that at some point it becomes ''speech'' and a different department at the university! and because I am new to the field and would like to know the boundaries.
One way of answering my question might be to list, as I have done above, an expanding set of notions that move from an individual's speech & voice to the language at large. And of course it need not be a simple linear progression.
Appreciate any help,
Anil
College Park, MD
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