| From: | Sai Emrys <saizai@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 4:06 |
Q: Are there universals between the various social-class accents, across languages? I remember that when I was learning Arabic, "hick" Arabic sounded very similar to hick American - e.g. the drawl, short "hello" phrases, etc. How crosslinguistic is this, and does it apply to other social-class accents/dialects too? - Sai