They may not know how their own voice sounds, but they are definitely aware that Deaf people are often perceived as sounding odd. Some Deaf people put a lot of practice into learning how to speak, sometimes even with the help of a vocal coach. Others may choose not to even try because of it.
Do deaf people know they have a deaf accent when speaking?
Submitted 10 months ago by robocall@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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missingno@fedia.io 10 months ago
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I was wondering if deaf people had accents. Last time I asked on reddit and was called an idiot because British sign language and American sign language is different.
Like, not really what I was asking, but they were insistent that I was ablist or something.
palordrolap@fedia.io 10 months ago
Deaf people will almost unavoidably copy the mouth shapes they've seen when other people have spoken. This means that how they sound will be at least somewhat informed by any hearing people they observe as well as indirectly through other deaf people who have also learned from hearing folks.
So yes, aspects of voice accent do carry over to deaf people.
There's also the concept of "accent" within sign language too. How people move between signs, carry themselves and act when expressing an emotion, which is usually exaggerated for the sake of clear communication, can vary from community to community, even if the base sign language is the same.
robocall@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Reddit is bad
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 10 months ago
OP didn’t ask about signing, but speaking.
IMALlama@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Speaking and talking are colloquially used to describe people communicating in sign language. “I speak ASL”, “I talk ASL”, etc.
Definitions of the words speak and [talk](www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/talk] cover non-verbal communication.
Speak: to express feelings by other than verbal means
Talk: to express or exchange ideas by means of spoken words or sign language
That said, I agree that OP was likely asking about spoken word.
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And neither was this OP.
nantsuu@fedia.io 10 months ago
They also have accents while signing, there are regional differences in sign language just like spoken language.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My brother is deaf. He most definitely knows he sounds different. He doesn’t use ASL with me. He uses it with my sister since she is fluent. We have had our own “family slang”.
robocall@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My friend’s parents are deaf. She has a tendency to start signing when she dances.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 10 months ago
The ones I know who are totally deaf, and have been all their life, their speaking is not quite clear (if you mean that by ‘accent’), and they know it well.
glimse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I would say that any deaf-from-birth person who ever regularly interacted with hearing people would know they sound a certain way
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
Yes, because they can communicate with people ;-)
I mean, I know I have an accent.
khepri@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Unless they’ve managed their entire life to avoid any person or piece of media cluing them in that (some) deaf people have a distinctive accent, then the answer to that would pretty obviously be yes.
Corelli_III@midwest.social 10 months ago
deaf people aren’t a monolith
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Uh, it’s spelled “monorail”, and of coarse not! They aren’t transformers!
Aeao@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That would be ridiculous… They probably meant to type “mammoth” which is like a large furry elephant that use to be hunted by primitive man.
robocall@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Image
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I can hear this image
Corelli_III@midwest.social 10 months ago
wow there really are some fucking stupid questions huh
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Where’d you get that picture of me
Empricorn@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Not with that attitude.
Lightor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But if they all grouped up and stood on each other’s shoulders, they have a chance.