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Friday, September 7, 2012

We got some twang, y’all: UNT professors, students research Texas accents

by Marlene Gonzalez of North Texas Daily

DENTON — People outside of Texas may think all Texans sound the same, but
linguistics professor Patricia Cukor-Avila and three students conducted a
research project showing that Texans think otherwise.

Their research was presented at the Symposium About Language and
Society-Austin Conference in April and will be published in the
conference’s academic papers this fall. The research was also introduced at
the Congress of the International Society for Dialectology and
Geolinguistics in Vienna in July.

“People outside of Texas have perceptions of Texans and how they speak,”
Cukor-Avila said. “But it’s interesting that Texans have perceptions of
other Texans.”

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http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2012/sep/07/accents-texas-UNT-research-dallas-academics/
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