‘Cows have regional accents’

I saw this story - Cows also ‘have regional accents’ - a couple of weeks ago, and didn’t give it much thought. However, it’s just been pointed out to me by a friend that the report was written by Prof. John Wells, who is one of my ex-lecturers in linguistics at UCL! Luckily, we never studied this kind of stuff…

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Title: ‘Cows have regional accents’

Published:: Tuesday 5th September 2006, 8:47 pm

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Tags:: BBC, linguistics, news, UCL

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Tink 24.09.06 / 2pm

Did you never do the whole Vervet Monkeys have accents thingy (mind you, you were a year below me..)? I’m pretty sure we talked about ducks and cows having accents too… Or maybe that was just in my imagination to make accents more interesting…

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Frankie Roberto 24.09.06 / 10pm

I didn’t do that course, no. I don’t doubt that animals have regional ‘accents’ either. What seems slightly unplausable is the suggestion that these accents are because of human linguistic influence…

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