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U of A Professor Seeks to Document Arkansas's Native Speakers

KUAF | By Jacqueline Froelich
Published November 26, 2019 at 2:28 PM CST
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Ben Corbett is gathering and archiving diverse native Arkansas accents for the historical record.
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Ben Corbett, assistant professor of voice and speech in the University of Arkansas Theatre Department, is directing the new Arkansas Accent and Dialect Project.

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Jacqueline Froelich
Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
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