{"id":658,"date":"2008-10-01T14:20:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T18:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=658"},"modified":"2008-10-01T15:06:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T19:06:52","slug":"palins-accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"Palin's accent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin's accent has elicited a great deal of curiosity, and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2201318\/\">Slate<\/a> has posted a well-researched analysis by the OED's Jesse Sheidlower. Here's the first paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Since Sarah Palin was selected as the Republican candidate for vice  president, many people have made comments about her unusual speech,  comparing it to accents heard in the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0116282\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fargo<\/em><\/a>, in the states of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.penelopetrunk.com\/2008\/09\/05\/i-hope-i-get-to-travel-on-sarah-palins-plane\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wisconsin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/tag\/politics\/forum?_encoding=UTF8&amp;cdForum=Fx1S3QSZRUL93V8&amp;cdThread=TxZAFA8L4MTL4C&amp;displayType=tagsDetail\" target=\"_blank\">Idaho<\/a>, and in <a href=\"http:\/\/telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com\/opinion\/article\/408037\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a>. Some have even attributed her manner of speaking to her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardbradley.net\/shotsinthedark\/2008\/09\/30\/more-palin-bashing\/\" target=\"_blank\">supposed stupidity<\/a>.  But Palin actually has an Alaskan accent, one from the Matnuska and  Susitna Valley region, where Palin's hometown, Wasilla, is located.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A more impressionistic take, with commentary by Rosina Lippi-Green (author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0415114772?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thevisualthes-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0415114772\">English with an Accent<\/a><\/em>) appeared yesterday on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0908\/14138.html\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sheidlower's piece relies on local knowledge from <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.hawaii.edu\/~crippen\/\">James Crippen<\/a>, a linguistics student at the University of Hawai\u2018i at M\u0101noa who hails from Alaska. (He's       Tlingit, and        his research is on his ancestral language as well as other languages of the Northwestern Pacific Coast region.) Crippen posted an insightful <a href=\"http:\/\/mr-verb.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/sarah-palins-accent.html?showComment=1220489700000#c8136401832983272127\">comment<\/a> on Palin's accent about a month ago on <a href=\"http:\/\/mr-verb.blogspot.com\/\">Mr. Verb<\/a>, which thus far has been the go-to blog for discussion of the Palin-olect. Nice to see the linguablogosphere getting out in front of this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin's accent has elicited a great deal of curiosity, and now Slate has posted a well-researched analysis by the OED's Jesse Sheidlower. Here's the first paragraph: Since Sarah Palin was selected as the Republican candidate for vice president, many people have made comments about her unusual speech, comparing it to accents heard in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-and-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}