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How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die
How Language Works How Babies Babble Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die
Author: David Crystal
A parrot uncomprehendingly rattles off a string of words learned by rote. And we marvel! Yet we seem to take our own astonishing linguistic powers for granted—the ability to speak, listen, and understand, to read and write. We all understand why language works—we have to communicate to survive—and now David Crystal, the world auth...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781585678488
ISBN-10: 1585678481
Publication Date: 11/16/2006
Pages: 512
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Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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