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Do kids do this in other languages, too?

Listening to my niece playing with a friend and it reminded me of something strange - Norwegian kids, when playing, switch dialects. It's like this over all of Norway - when kids play, their dialect changes into a southeastern Norwegian one. As our dialect is a North-western one, the difference is really damn stark.

It's so normal here I rarely think about how weird that is. Is this universal? 馃
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Whoa, this is fascinating!

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I think kids here don't necessarily change dialect but instead mimic what they think a character sounds like from TV or whatever.
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@SW-User I remember everyone talking like they were from California lol
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@SW-User I am not the best to answer probaby, because when I would play it would be so varied with voices and characters and such, and then animating my sister's stuffed animals to entertain her, I'd make up some odd voice I thought fit, so I was all over the map in this regard.

We always tried deeper voices to be adult, but I managed to be able to reproduce cartoon character voices over time.