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Showing posts with label Linguistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Linguistics. Show all posts
Monday, November 5, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Starting off close to home
It's easy for many of us here in Washington to complain about learning a new language and the accent that goes with it. After all, we don't have an accent, right? Wrong. Or so says Jennifer Ingle, a linguist who did her studies at the University of Washington.
Check out the link below to see a transcript and (even better!) hear the recording and the accent variations that Ingle found.
Pacific Northwest Dialect Spoken Here
The article is a bit old, but only recently came into my life and is still quite interesting. I was surprised by the truth in it, what do you think?
Check out the link below to see a transcript and (even better!) hear the recording and the accent variations that Ingle found.
Pacific Northwest Dialect Spoken Here
The article is a bit old, but only recently came into my life and is still quite interesting. I was surprised by the truth in it, what do you think?
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