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6:30 pm

Voices of Melville: The Linguistic Landscape of Nineteenth-Century America Through a Literary Lens

May 29 Wed @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road
Pittsfield, MA 01201 United States
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$5 – $10

We can’t know how Herman Melville sounded or hear his characters’ voices…or can we? In linguistics, the study of language, we can study how English has changed since Melville’s time and why languages are always changing. Join us as we welcome linguist Wren Wood to Arrowhead for a lecture demonstrating how we can hear Melville’s …

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