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How Language Works: How Babies Babble Words Change Meaning And Languages Live Or Die

by David Crystal

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In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way we find ou... Read more
In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to speak, how politeness travels across languages and how the way we talk show not just how old we are but where we're from and even who we want to be. Less

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File size7.78 X 5.1 X 0.97 in
Print pages400
PublisherPenguin Uk
Publication date March 27, 2007
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780141015521
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David Crystal
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David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. He has published over ninety books, most recently The Stories of English, and is the editor of The Penguin Encycl...

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