{"id":4914,"date":"2013-06-26T22:37:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T03:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2013-06-26T23:11:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T04:11:26","slug":"if-these-knishes-could-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=4914","title":{"rendered":"If these knishes could talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm in Ann Arbor for the <a href=\"http:\/\/lsa2013.lsa.umich.edu\/\">2013 LSA Institute<\/a>, where I'm teaching a course on <a href=\"http:\/\/lsa2013.lsa.umich.edu\/2012\/05\/text-manipulation-and-corpora\/\">Corpus-Based Linguistic Research<\/a>, and this evening the Institute organizers showed \"<a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkaccentfilm.com\/\">If These Knishes Could Talk: A Film About the New York Accent<\/a>\". It was quite a lot of fun, and I certainly recommend it to all LL readers &#8212; though unfortunately it has not previously been shown outside of the NYC area, and the only way to <a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkaccentfilm.com\/?p=261\">buy a DVD<\/a> is apparently to contact the filmmaker Heather Quinlan directly.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Quite a few clips are available on the film's website &#8212; some of my personal favorites are <a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkaccentfilm.com\/?p=253\">Ben Lee<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkaccentfilm.com\/?p=268\">Sam Caraballo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkaccentfilm.com\/?p=67\">James McBride<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkaccentfilm.com\/?p=63\">Amy Heckerling<\/a>. And there are lots of clips from <a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkaccentfilm.com\/?p=76\">this dinner conversation<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm in Ann Arbor for the 2013 LSA Institute, where I'm teaching a course on Corpus-Based Linguistic Research, and this evening the Institute organizers showed \"If These Knishes Could Talk: A Film About the New York Accent\". It was quite a lot of fun, and I certainly recommend it to all LL readers &#8212; though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-variation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4921,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}