3 year old started copying speech impediment?

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I'm assuming this is just something she will grow out of, but my DD3 has started to speak with a speech impediment that she didn't have before. As far as I can work out she is mimicing her key working who has a similar speech impediment. It's just started in the last few weeks so there is no physical reason for it. DD is kind of a law unto herself anyway as she has a strong English accent even though we live in the heart of Scotland and all have Scottish accents

I'm assuming she'll grow out of it as time goes on? Anyone have a similar experience?

My older DC (6) has also changed his speech since he started school and now pronounces certain words differently.

I have heard before it's a sign of having a 'musical ear' to copy the speech patterns etc of others. Don't know whether that's true or not!

That sounds quite sweet actually. I imagine she will develop into a person with good empathy as she clearly picked up the speech pattern from a person who is important to her, the key worker. She’ll grow out of it.

Yes i think that's probably right. It was very pronounced last week on half term and I wondered if it was a sort of self-comfort on some level, reminding herself of her key worker/nursery environment when she wasn't there.

I hope she has lots of empathy when she gets older. At the moment she's very... three

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Yes i think that's probably right. It was very pronounced last week on half term and I wondered if it was a sort of self-comfort on some level, reminding herself of her key worker/nursery environment when she wasn't there.

I hope she has lots of empathy when she gets older. At the moment she's very... three

Ah bless

Definitely will grow out of it.

My children spoke in a northern accent like I do but as we live in the south once they started school they developed their own accent

I miss it