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Subject: no accent allow !

has anybody else see a weird piece in a newspaper ( i read it sunday morn in the local gannett paper and promptly misplace it ) about a measure take by the greek mayor of a small massachusett town with a very ethnically mix population to prevent people with foreign accent to be employ as grade school teacher ? beside kill my own chance of ever teach grade school over there , be this measure also nonsensical linguistically ? am i right in assume that child do not typically get " infect " by foreign accent ? the exploit of my bilingual daughter be already mention on this list or around it , but her experience with english ( one of her two native language ) pertain to my query . for the first 3 or 4 year of her life , her english exposure be primarily to my wife 's and my ( different ) foreign accent and our housekeeper / nanny who speak rather a radical upper peninsulum michigan dialect , complete with " warsh " for " wash , " etc . sarah never acquire any of that . to refocus the query , be it possible for a 5 - or 6 - year-old to be influence by the foreign accent of his or her grade school teacher ? - - victor raskin raskin @ j . cc . purdue . edu professor of english and linguistic ( 317 ) 494-3782 chair , interdepartmental program in linguistic 494-3780 fax coordinator , natural language process laboratory purdue university w . lafayette , in 47907 u . s . a .