How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die by David Crystal

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

David Crystal

512 pages hardcover 2006

5 editions

nonfiction science informative slow-paced
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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 fin...

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