Jamaican accent
Kingston vocal style
A Jamaican accent is the distinctive way English sounds when spoken by people from Jamaica.
It features a melodic, rhythmic quality with characteristic vowel shifts, consonant changes (th becoming d or t), and syllable-timed rhythm rather than the stress-timed pattern of American or British English.
The accent varies by region and social class within Jamaica, ranging from light to heavy: Her Jamaican accent gets stronger when she's on the phone with her mother.
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