According to Crystal Accommodation is:  “Adjustments that people make unconsciously to their speech, influenced by the speech of those they are talking to”(448).  Crystal also notes that when people of different regional or social backgrounds meet, their speech tends to converge if they like each other. He mentions that this is noticeable in accents (298).
     Crystal seems to think “some people cannot stop themselves from picking up the accent of the person they are talking to” (298).  There are several studies that prove when we encounter other people whom we do not like we maintain our accent and our language tends to diverge and vice versa for people we do like.  Crystal also states “…we unconsciously associate regional variation with psychological and social traits” (298).  In fact, Crystal says, that it is now well established that immigrant children who are a minority in a school classroom risk being rated as less intelligent or poorer learners (298).
      An example, my brother Jason went to Job Corp in Kittrell.  He returned home about three months later and his accent had changed.  He was around all types of people with different regional and/or social backgrounds.  To us he sounded different but he couldn’t tell that his accent had changed.  He had sort of a northern accent instead of a southern accent.
    Another example is I worked at a convenient store and the lady talked more proper and educated than me.  The next thing I knew I was using some of the same phrases as her, and also I borrowed some of her words.  David Crystal seems to be saying that if you like a person you might pick up some of their accent but if you do not like the person you become aware of their language and start to ridicule them (298).
      There was one statement I found interesting and it was “…when people encounter others with whom they wish to maintain a distance, their language tends to become less alike or diverge.”  Just like Mari Westforth pointed out saying in her presentation: “We rate children or adults as being less intelligent or poorer learners because of their accents being “unlike” ours.”  Any accent or dialect deserves as much respect as our own accent or dialect.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
     Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of The English Language.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.