What accent do deaf people have?

Question

If you develop accents by hearing others what accents do deaf people have when they speak?

Answer 1

Very muffled and hard to understand.  They mispronounce a lot of things too.

Answer 2

Well since the deaf cannot hear what they are saying, they have no accents. No matter what language or country of origin they are from. So it's practically impossible for them to "pick up" any accent UNLESS they were NOT born deaf and had learned to speak before the time that they became deaf. Maybe they might have a slight accent, not sure haven't met anyone yet with one, but it's very slight that they might.

Answer 3

It's just called the deaf accent. In hard of hearing people it sounds a little British like Len Goodman from Dancing with the Stars. That's my accent.

Deaf people learn to speak by moving their articulators (lips, tongue, etc) in ways that they see others doing. They don't always get cadence right, which beat of the word gets the accent, and their higher frequency sounds, like /s/ or /sh/ or /z/  might all sound like /sh/. Any hard of hearing person beyond a certain point has an /r/ accent, like Len Goodman I mentioned before.