LINGUIST List 15.23

Mon Jan 12 2004

Media: Mercury News: Accents Add Heft or Yuks

Editor for this issue: Steve Moran <stevelinguistlist.org>

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1. nancyf, Accents add heft or yuks

Accents add heft or yuks for movie stars, doing accents always has
been a kind of parlor trick, a feat of conjuration that can have about
as much to do with breathing life into a character as pulling a rabbit
out of a hat. The full article will be available on the Web for a
limited time:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/7672793.htm