Friday, August 25, 2006

Update: Cows also have regional accents


Filed under: Animals and language

Update: Mark Liberman at Language Log has investigated the background of this story, and it – rather unsurprisingly – turns out that the news release linked to below is, using Joey’s (from the TV sitcom Friends) term, a moo point, rather than based on any real science.

“Cows have regional accents like humans, language specialists have confirmed.” Read the full article at BBC News


See also:

>  Birds Heard Singing With Accents
>  How our brain controls our accent
>  Monkeys have accents too
>  Experts Want African Languages in Schools

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