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Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. 0822

A community's sound change always outruns the individual, and innovation mostly happens in adolescence

Your accent barely changes over a lifetime, yet an entire city's speech keeps moving: new changes are mostly added once in adolescence, then each person freezes with them, and the next generation adds a little more.

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