【新朋友】点击标题下面蓝字【可可英语】加关注【老朋友】点击手机右上角图标【转发分享】内容听力文本This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.(CLIP: The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.)Why can people speaking the same language have such different accents? The short answer: new accents begin to develop when isolated groups of speakers start making nearly imperceptible changes to the way they pronounce words."Accent development is the first step in language change. Fifteen hundred years ago, languages like English, Dutch and Swedish were actually all dialects of the same language. But of course, then they diversified over time."University of Munich linguist Jonathan Harrington. He's interested in how accents first get started. But because of global communication, most communities are no longer linguist
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