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Dartmouth Linguistics faculty member Jim Stanford quoted in news story on Boston accent

This WBUR / Boston NPR feature on the Boston accent quotes Jim Stanford, a linguistics expert on this regional accent who is a faculty member in the Dartmouth Department of Linguistics.

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In 2019, Prof. Stanford published "New England English: Large-Scale Acoustic Sociophonetics and Dialectology," the most up-to-date scholarly study of Boston-area speech patterns. To conduct the eight-year study, his team interviewed about 1,600 New Englanders. The story features some fun sound clips of native Bostonian accents. See the full story here:

https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/11/03/bostonians-eastern-massachusetts-new-england-boston-accent