Date:  Sat, 19 Mar 1994 07:45:52 -0600

From:  mftcf[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UXA.ECN.BGU.EDU

Subject: Re: Conscious Learning of Accent



On Sat, 12 Mar 1994, Donald M. Lance wrote:



> fronting. The Ozarkers do make these subtle changes. I don't have much

> contact with students in Agriculture, Business. or Engineering, but I

> suspect that they make less effort to change than the Arts & Sciences

> students do. My students also tell of changing accent when they go home

> (like the Yali from Sparta in the video "American Tongues"). This, I'd

> say, is "consciously changing accent" to some degree. Biloquiality,

> with conscious effort at some age. Maybe others will want to expand on this

> complex topic. Natural-sounding biloquiality may be hard to accomplish.

> Tim seems to be suggesting that it's impossible.   DMLance

>

Don, I'm stil catching up so I haven't seen the responses. Meanwhile, on

your guess about engineering students: Remember all those non-Inland

Northern speaking engineers we use to hear from NASA on space shot telecasts?



Tim