Stanford project looks at differences, origins of California accents (fwd link)

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*Stanford project looks at differences, origins of California accents*

By Katherine Seligman
Special to The Bee
Published: Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012

Dude, you probably know where L.A. is: down the 101.

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.

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.

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http://www.sacbee.com/2012/11/18/4994211/stanford-project-looks-at-differences.html#storylink=cpy
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