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According to Linguist Lee A. Pederson of Atlanta's Emory University, who specializes in Southern dialects, Carter's speech pattern is not merely Southern, not simply Georgian, but Gulf coastal plain. It is one of at least seven distinct regional dialects that are discernible in what Pederson considers to be one of the nation's most linguistically complicated states.* What is more, it differs markedly from dialects in other Southern states. Thus an Alabaman's drawn-out "you all" becomes "yawl" in the more rapid South Georgian speech, and "Ah wouldn't" becomes "Ah woon...
...listeners are convinced that Carter's accent has been considerably -and quite consciously-modified by his schooling in the North, his Navy travels and even by campaign-speech consultants. Not so, insists Pederson. "He does not seem to have messed around with his language very much," says the linguist. "That's the sign of a person who's got his head on straight...
...willingness to always begin again which makes him admire one of his friends, another Widener scholar who sat sipping coffee at the same lunch table. The woman, who also asked that her name be withheld, has been a Ph.D. mathematician and physicist in her native Austria, an antiquarian and linguist after an attack of polio, the coordinator of an African education project, the author of an article on the artist Oskar Kokoschka, and is currently a student of plants. She explained her activities without the rabbi's serious tone in what she called a characteristic "lighter vein...
Napoli also accuses the Romance Languages Department of going to the length of changing its course offerings in order to avoid hiring her. She claims that the department, "without a conscious policy to deemphasize linguistics," redefined the position she sought so that it could use the male candidate's background rather than seeking a replacement for the "romance linguist" who had occupied the post in the past...
These restrictions were applied even more severely to faculty appointments. In his memories, Ludwig Lewison tells how he was prevented from teaching English; the noted linguist Edward Sapir relates how he was told by his Professor that as a Jew he could not expect an appointment in the United States and he had to go to Canada to teach; Lionel Trilling recalled in an article in Commentary that he was the first Jew appointed to the English department a Columbia. The Harvard Law School did not appoint another Jew after Felix Frankfurter until 1939, when Paul Freund and Milton Katz...