So, I listen to several podcasts by people who are the children of Indian immigrants to the US, and I swear there's a very slight accent feature, where the K sound is closer to a G. So, e.g collection is closer to gollection, or company is toward "gompany." Is this a thing? Possibly it's actually a California accent, since most of them are in the Bay Area, but I don't think I've heard it elsewhere.
In general, is there a study of kids-of-immigrants' linguistic features?
I've wondered about this, even with regional things. I was born and raised in the Midwest, but my parents were both from the northern Rockies region.
I always thought that my grandparents pronounced things funny, so I clearly didn't have the same accent they did, but friends pointed out that my vowels sounded funny compared to everyone else's.
@ZachWeinersmith I'll second the NY/NJ/Jewish monkeywrench. My father grew up around San Francisco, adopted before he could speak by a woman from a french family who had arrived in 1850 and a Jewish man who had recently fled Germany (this was 1945). He (my father, SF native) has what some people clock as the hint of a NY accent.
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