"Speech and language therapist Megan Cunning says children's speech is deteriorating and they are not interacting they way they should." Article here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-31054245 Dave -- Dr. Dave Sayers Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University (2009-2015) [log in to unmask] | http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers ######################################################################## The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist sociolinguistics. To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1