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Can We Help?: Efficient speech: the process of language change

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Wassup, bro?Well 'pparently I ain't speakin' right.Will thou ha' the truth on't?We often think that only young people speak in abbreviated forms, but the truth is people have been doing this since Anglo-Saxon times! In this clip discover with Professor Kate Burridge some words that belong to the 'zero plurals' group, why we pronounce some words the way we do, and the effect the letter 'w' has on the vowels that follow it. _x000D__x000D_

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7; 8

Topics English language Personal identity Accents (Speech) Social relations Conversations Electronic publishing Language conventions Pronunciation Idioms Vocabularies Word formation Contractions (Grammar) Language evolution

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