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Article #2684Regional accents (was: Spelling and Perceptual Mode)
From: Louise Pryor
Date: Fri, 12 May 1989 00:49
Date: Fri, 12 May 1989 00:49
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In article <2763@puff.cs.wisc.edu>, brian@cat50.CS.WISC.EDU (Brian Miller) writes: > > Regional dialects are rapidly evaporating as mass communication becomes > an integral part of modern society. This is just not true. It is still impossible to talk about *the* British accent, let alone say that British and American accents are similar. Just listen to someone from Glasgow, or Birmingham, or Cornwall, or North Wales, or Norwich, or South London or... And that's just in one small island! Alternatively, try to make yourself understood with an English accent (so-called BBC English) at a filling station in Atlanta (or New Haven, come to that). I doubt whether Britons and Americans will ever have the same accent, the vowel sounds are just too different on the whole. Louise Pryor ARPA: pryor@cs.yale.edu BITNET: pryor@YALECS.BITNET
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!lll-winken!uunet!yale!Pryor-Louise From: Pryor-Louise@cs.yale.edu (Louise Pryor) Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.cog-eng,sci.psychology Subject: Regional accents (was: Spelling and Perceptual Mode) Keywords: GB Shaw, orthography Message-ID: <60340@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 12 May 89 00:49:35 GMT References: <2763@puff.cs.wisc.edu> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: Pryor-Louise@cs.yale.edu (Louise Pryor) Distribution: na Organization: Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 20 In-reply-to: brian@cat50.CS.WISC.EDU (Brian Miller)