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What's the difference between accent and dialect?
The difference between accent and dialect: different quotations, different quotations and different emphasis.

First, refer to different

1, accent: pronunciation. Phonetics refers to the sound made by air flow only through the mouth and not through the nose.

2. Dialect: a branch of language formed by historical evolution in different places. Pass through an area. Such as Cantonese and Wu in Chinese.

Second, the citation is different.

1, accent: Mao Dun's Color Blindness III: "Lin Baishuang knew from his accent that he was a colleague's instructor, but he moved slightly and was still writing."

2. Dialect: Bing Xin's "Farewell to Little Readers" VIII: "His poems are written in dialects, full of people's nature, sense of justice, simplicity and beauty."

Third, the emphasis is different.

1, accent: the momentum of speaking; The tone, wording, or style of speaking.

2. Dialect: a variety of language. Dialects can be divided into regional dialects and social dialects according to their nature. Regional dialect is a language variety caused by regional differences, a branch of people's languages in different regions of the whole dialect, and a geographical reflection of unbalanced language development.