Capitalising on children’s existing multilingualism would be beneficial.
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How someone speaks should be a lot less important than what is said. But that isn’t always the case.
For a younger generation of secular Jews, Yiddish is acquiring a new appeal.
We found that the usage of supposedly upper-class words varied, but not in a way that correlated with social class.
What the iconic musical tells us about accent prejudice and class.
‘Year’ and ‘time’ are the two most frequent nouns in British English.
Accents are constantly changing.
The way questions on language were posed call the results into question.
The unpleasant ‘Happy Brexit Day’ poster misses the fact that the vast majority of people in the UK recognise the benefits of multilingualism.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where primary school pupils do not have to learn another language.
This explains why some aspects of English can be hard to learn for speakers of other languages.
Young people from working class backgrounds in socially deprived areas are far less likely to choose, or have the opportunity, to study languages at secondary school, than their more affluent peers.
Limited contact between the first British Sign Language communities created dialects that are still in use today.
Cwtch, drive and brammer are all commonly thought of as Welsh dialect terms, but they have actually come from all over the world.
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Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Linguistics, University of York
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Swansea University
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Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, University of East Anglia
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Professor in Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster University
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Reader (Education) in Modern Languages Education, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor, Linguistics, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Research Associate, linguistics, University of Sussex
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Research Fellow, School of the Arts, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Urban Literature, Queen Mary University of London
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Heriot-Watt University
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Senior Lecturer in French Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London