Boston Accent Expert Needed

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:11 PM -0500 1/11/06, Grant Barrett wrote:
>I have a query from a reporter who would like to talk about New York
>City Mayor Mike Bloomberg losing his Boston accent.
>
>Any takers?
>
>--
>Grant Barrett
>administrator at americandialect.org
>American Dialect Society
>VP of Comm and Tech
>http://www.americandialect.org/

I sent the query (from Sam Roberts of the Times, which I assume is
the reporter in question) to Bill Labov but haven't heard back.

Larry