[MilkMaid]

Originally Posted by Livia

Not after a couple of weeks, it doesn't. Maybe if you live abroad for ten years you may be forgiven, but apart from that, it's unlikely she'd been altering her accent subconsciously after only a couple of weeks. No one's that impressionable.

I disagree. Some people only need to be conversing with someone on and off in a social situation for a few hours for inflexions to be picked up.

For example, someone from the south can inadvertently pronounce a word like 'cup' as 'coop' (forgive the lack of phonemes to demonstrate actual pronunciation more accurately!) if they've been hanging out with someone from the north. I've seen/heard this happen many times.

As I said, not everyone is this impressionable but it's more frequent than you may think.