<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><p style="font-family: arial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.54em; margin-bottom: 18px; ">Jean Gross, Britain's first Communication Champion, has warned that a significant number of British children aren't learning to talk because their parents are so busy working that they don't have time to talk to them.</p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;">read the whole post, to your children, on the Web of Language: <a href="http://bit.ly/weblan"><a href="http://bit.ly/weblan">http://bit.ly/weblan</a></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><br></span></div></span>Dennis Baron<div>Department of English</div><div>University of Illinois</div><div>608 S. Wright St. </div><div>Urbana IL 61801</div><div><br></div><div>read the Web of Language</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/weblan">http://bit.ly/weblan</a></div></div></body></html>