Linguists have a lot of largely untested theories. Borrowing a tool from ecology, researchers built a model that didn't look for one worldwide explanation.
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English will remain an official EU language – even after Brexit – and this will impact the way it evolves.
Britons are notoriously bad at learning other languages. Here are some of the things that they find difficult.
This explains why some aspects of English can be hard to learn for speakers of other languages.
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Reader in Linguistics, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
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Ph.D. Student in Ecology, Universidade Federal de Goias
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Reader in Linguistics, Anglia Ruskin University
