Accent

口音

The cumulative auditory effect of those features of pronunciation which identify where a person is from, regionally or socially. The linguistics literature emphasizes that the term refers to pronunciation only, and is thus distinct from dialect, which refers to grammar and vocabulary as well.

一个人的发音特点所产生的总体听觉效果，人们据此能辨识他是什么地方或什么社会地位的人。语言学文献中这个术语仅指发音，因此有别于方言，后者还指语法和词汇。