learning to speak "standard"

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:00 PM -0800 2/28/08, Bradley A. Esparza wrote:
>I have a "gay voice", but was told early on it's 'who I am' as opposed to
>'what I am' by a libertarian mother. Where linguistics meets the
>metaphysical, maybe.
>
>I can't help but think of all the actors with distinctive "voices", like
>Wallace Shawn or Carol Kane.
>

Or Jimmy Stewart.  Or Mae West.  Or Jack Nicholson.

LH

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