<font size="4" face="georgia, serif" color="#000099"><b>Stanford project looks at differences, origins of California accents</b></font><br><br>By Katherine Seligman<br>Special to The Bee<br>Published: Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012<br>
<br>Dude, you probably know where L.A. is: down the 101.<br><br>Where are you most likely to hear this? Linguists will point to technical clues – the long "u" and use of "the" – yet the rest of us might also guess correctly: Southern California.<br>
<br>Voices from other corners of California, however, are not this easy to place. Experts have studied accents in urban and coastal areas of Southern and Northern California (yes, there is one here, from common words like "hella" to what linguists call our tendency to perform a "nasal split" on certain vowels), but until recently they largely have overlooked a swath of the state's population.<br>
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