Actor's Dialects

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Mar 8 16:06:48 UTC 2004


At 10:39 PM -0500 3/7/04, Duane Campbell wrote:
>
>Question: Are Southern accents infective? Does this phenomenon happen to
>many people or just me?
>
>
Not just to you; the process is virulent among football coaches, who
have been known to acquire a southern accent after a single exposure
when changing planes at Hartsfield Airport.

larry horn



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