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Language: en
Pages: 327
Pages: 327
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-03-14 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
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Language: en
Pages: 408
Pages: 408
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-22 - Publisher: New Generation Publishing
This is a serious book examining the original sounds and meanings of languages right back to the Stone Age - up until now believed to be impossible. But it can
Language: en
Pages: 402
Pages: 402
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
This book explores the origin and evolution of speech. The human speech system is in a league of its own in the animal kingdom and its possession dwarfs most ot
Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-26 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Communication plays a vital and unique role in society-often blamed for problems when it breaks down and at the same time heralded as a panacea for human relati
Language: en
Pages: 384
Pages: 384
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-07 - Publisher: Liveright Publishing
How Language Began revolutionizes our understanding of the one tool that has allowed us to become the "lords of the planet." Mankind has a distinct advantage ov