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In June, UK media posted online a short video of princess Megan speaking to the public. In this video, some net friends found that Megan shifted from American accent to British accent！ （click here to view the video）
It was undeniable that Princess had worked hard to learn a new accent. However, if Megan's Wernicke's area did not function well, she would not be able to change her accent easily; Even worse, she may lose her ability to speak!
So what is Wernicke's area and why does it really matter？
First of all, Wernicke's area is in temporal lobe and it helps people understand meaning of words. (An easy way to locate temporal lobe is to close your maxillary joint and touch your temples where you will find the muscles there are in tension. Temporal lobe just lies under these muscles) If Wernicke's area is injured seriously, people cannot understand other’s speech, nor can they write/speak in logic. If one’s Wernicke’s area is injured, it is likely for one to suffer from sensory aphasia.
Secondly, scientists report that Wernicke's area is where brain stores information about phoneme—— the smallest segments of sounds to form words. Because Wernicke's area is sensitive to phoneme, people can properly understand words being said as well as pronounce words correctly. Fun facts: each person may have different pronunciation on same words because different people’s Wernicke's area manage phoneme in different ways. These tiny distinction leads to one simple result—— the born of accent.
By the way, there are still a variety of other English accents besides British and American accent, such as Indian accent and Scottish accent. Some of English learners in China also have strong accent, not to mention Hunan Chinglish and Sichuan Chinglish. But is there any effective way to get rid of foreign accent?
Fledge Ph.D. had a detailed answer to this question. He proclaimed that massive language input is always necessary ( Language inputs means all words and sentences heard and understood by learners) to improve the performance of pronunciation. Moreover, he pointed out that there was no direct relationship between learners' age and their general performance of pronunciation. Thus, only when people take more time to ponder how each word sounds and how to make such sounds, can they prompt Wernicke's area to better understand the knowledge of phoneme.