Language preferences of infants

[Michael Newman]

But Click and Clack have gorgeous Boston accents. I ɡet a tinɡle every time they say "dollar" as [dɒlə]


Michael Newman
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Queens College/CUNY
michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu

> 
> But I'm repelled by the vision of self-perpetuating generations of
> a-rhotic Clicks and Clacks.  (Although I don't know whether those two
> Bostonians in particular are a-rhotic.)
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> The article starts on
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/science/insights-in-human-knowledge-from-the-minds-of-babes.html?_r=1
> 
> Joel
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