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Ms. Johnson said the show had received some questions from parents who wonder why Ming-Ming talks the way she does, turning R’s into W’s. She said that when Danica Lee, the 7-year-old New Jersey girl who gives voice to the character, auditioned for the role nearly three years ago, the producers noticed the speech pattern, one that is common in young children and is usually outgrown. Danica, in fact, had done so by the time recording of the new shows began, Ms. Johnson said. But, she added, “we thought it so charming that we asked her to keep it.”
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