accent allowed anybody else seen weird piece newspaper read sunday morning local gannett paper promptly misplaced measure taken greek mayor small massachusetts town ethnically mixed population prevent people foreign accents employed grade school teachers besides killing chances ever teaching grade school measure also nonsensical linguistically right assuming children typically get infected foreign accents exploits bilingual daughter already mentioned list around experience english one two native languages pertains query first 3 4 years life english exposure primarily wife different foreign accents housekeeper nanny spoke rather radical upper peninsula michigan dialect complete warsh wash etc sarah never acquired refocus query possible 5 6 yearold influenced foreign accent grade school teacher victor raskin raskin j cc purdue edu professor english linguistics 317 4943782 chair interdepartmental program linguistics 4943780 fax coordinator natural language processing laboratory purdue university w lafayette 47907 u