The phrase "accent emerged" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the development or appearance of a particular accent over time or in a specific context.
Example: "As she spent more time in the region, her accent emerged, reflecting the local dialect."
Alternatives: "accent developed" or "accent surfaced".
During visits home his friends would chide him if his original accent emerged.
A black limousine appeared outside and a short man with a heavy Italian accent emerged with a message: Yes, New York, there is a Ray, and he's finally got himself a lawyer.
When a contestant criticized for her Southern accent emerged as the victor one season, Banks told her, "We're gonna get you some voice lessons, girl!" The judges once nearly eliminated a deaf contestant who flubbed a nocturnal photo shoot in which the other contenders relied on spoken direction to pose.
She has lived in the UK since her student days, but her Canadian accent emerges in the full surge of conversation.
But Mr. Andriessen's accent emerges quickly as the chord progression takes unexpected turns, the harmonies grow increasingly dense, and a singing, attractively chromatic melody is spun out over this thorny backdrop.
His own voice -- sharp, fast-talking, cynical, heavily New York-accented -- emerges most clearly at the beginning of the movie, when his voice-over introduces the Five Towns as a place where "you got judges living next to gamblers next to rabbis living next to dentists" and "16-year-old kids thinking and acting like they're Flavor Flav," the rap star.
Once the novelty of the new textures recedes, however, "Southern Accents" emerges as a work of considerable energy and command.
His strong Australian accent has emerged as a problem in the company's television advertisements.
Mr. White, a former college hockey player with a pronounced Boston accent, has emerged as a singular force within the Romney campaign.
A second work by Mr. Norman, "Sabina," for solo viola, traced a sunrise from a breathy, pianissimo opening to an insistent welter of double stops, counterpoint and arpeggiation from which accented themes emerged.
Board member Arianna Huffington — the onetime pundit and digital publisher with a distinctive Greek accent — addressed employees, emerging as the most visible leader of a company trying to recover from months of self-inflicted wounds.
