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Despite our ever increasing mass-media society, one University of Pennsylvania linguist says that regional speech patterns are becoming more, not less, pronounced. We'll look at the research and talk with a local linguist about that and the very distinct accents here in New England...from Boston, Massachusetts to Bar Harbor, Maine. Laura's guests are William Labov, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "The Atlas of North American English", and Naomi Nagy, Director of the UNH Linguistics Lab and Coordinator of the UNH Linguistics Program. David Alan Stern, Professor of Dramatic Arts in Voice, Speech, and Dialect at the University of Connecticut. David is also President and Founder of “Dialect Accent Specialists” in Lyndonville, Vermont that teaches everyone from Hollywood Stars to Business Executive how to speak or loose accents.