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BY KATHLEEN MCCOY</p><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,Geneva,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:15px;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span class="" style="margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Hometown UBy KATHLEEN McCOY</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">December 14, 2013</span> </p>
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Jennifer Stone joined UAA six years ago and teaches the history of the English language, among other classes. That story is long and complex, documenting how many other languages shaped the English we speak today.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin:20px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:20px;max-width:620px!important">
To make some of the concepts relevant to her students, Stone looked locally for examples of what happens when different languages splash up against each other.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin:20px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:20px;max-width:620px!important">
She could hardly find richer territory than the 49th state, known for varied indigenous languages and, in more modern times, as the landing site for immigrants and refugees from around the world. She'd stumbled into a language mother lode.</p>
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