How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Liveor Die - David Crystal • BookLikes (ISBN:1585678481)

How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Liveor Die

by: David Crystal (author)

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Format: hardcover

ISBN: 9781585678488 (1585678481)

ASIN: 1585678481

Publish date: 2006-11-16

Publisher: Overlook Hardcover

Pages no: 512

Edition language: English

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Non Fiction, History, Reference, Humanities, Language, Science, Psychology

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Diocletian rated it

12 years ago

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A good introduction to languages and everything about them. I found the chapters on language families particularly interesting. As it is only a introduction, it does not go deeply into the specifics.

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Reflections rated it

15 years ago

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This is an interesting and easy to read book. The chapters do not need to be read consecutively, each is a self-contained essay on some aspect of language.I had hardly started the book, when it started me on an observational quest for an "Eyebrow Flash". I got one that same night from the ticket sel...

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