Postby Babbsagg » 2017-11-01, 22:15
Alcohol does have that effect that cognitive functions are pushed back and intuition takes over.
Now a great lot of learning and speaking a language is an intuitive process. Everyone knows an awful lot about how to speak their mother tongue, without consciously "knowing" it. Even before you know anything about phonetics, you know how your mother tongue sounds and you know how to do it correctly yourself, without ever wasting any thought on it.
I think it's very well possible that you can pick up characteristics of a certain accent without consciously understanding them. And I guess it makes sense that under certain circumstances, being sober/conscious may actually make it harder to replicate it.
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