Genie: A Scientific Tragedy
by Russ Rymer


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The compelling story of a young woman's emergence into the world after spending her first 13 years strapped to a chair, and her rescue and exploitation by scientists hoping to gain new insight into language acquisition.... (read more)

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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
by Nicholas Ostler


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Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the... (read more)

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Made in America
by Bill Bryson


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Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr... (read more)

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Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages
by Daniel Nettle


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Few people know that nearly one hundred native languages once spoken in what is now California are near extinction, or that most of Australia's 250 aboriginal languages have vanished. In fact, at least half of the world's languages may die out in the... (read more)

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Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language
by Keith Allan


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Examines how we use language to swear, to insult, and also to be politically correct.... (read more)

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Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics)
by Douglas Biber


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'This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing, introducing the corpus-based approach to the study of language.'... (read more)

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Papers in Laboratory Phonology #3: Phonological Structure and Phonetic Form
by Patricia A Keating


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Phonological Structure and Phonetic Form brings together work from phonology, phonetics, speech science, electrical engineering, psycho- and sociolinguistics. The chapters are organized in four topical sections. The first is concerned with stress and... (read more)

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Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends
by Deborah Tannen


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This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse... (read more)

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Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages
by Derek Bickerton


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Why Do Isolated Creole Languages Tend to Have Similar Grammatical Structures?   Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human—what language is... (read more)

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North American Icelandic: The Life of a Language
by Bir Arnbjornsdottir


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North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba and North Dakota and is the only version of Icelandic that is not spoken in Iceland. But North American Icelandic is a dying language with few left who speak it. North American... (read more)

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Do You Speak American?
by Robert Macneil


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Is the growing influence of Spanish threatening to displace English in the United States? Are America's grammatical standards in serious decline? Has the media saturation of our culture homogenized our speech? These and other questions catapulted Robert... (read more)

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Construal
by Lyn Frazier


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Construal presents a new theory of sentence processing, one that allows a limited type of underspecification in the syntactic analysis of sentences. It extends what has arguably been the dominant theory of parsing (the garden-path theory developed by Lyn... (read more)

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Language, Logic, and Concepts
by Ray Jackendoff


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This wide-ranging collection of essays is inspired by the memory of the cognitive psychologist John Macnamara, whose influential contributions to language and concept acquisition have provided the basis for numerous research programs. The areas covered... (read more)

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A Natural History of Latin
by Tore Janson


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How Latin conquered the world, and why it is still a force to be reckoned with.... (read more)

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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #2: Sounds Like Life: Sound-Symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua
by Janis Nuckolls


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Sound-symbolism occurs when words resemble the sounds associated with the phenomena they attempt to describe, rather than an arbitrary representation. For example the word raven is arbitrary in that it does not resemble a raven; cuckoo, however, is sound... (read more)

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The Concise Dictionary of Linguistics (Oxford Paperback Reference)
by P H Matthews


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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of linguistics available. Written by distinguished and highly respected scholar Peter Matthews, this handy reference includes worldwide coverage of languages... (read more)

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Philosophy of Language 4TH Edition
by Aloysius Martinich


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What is meaning? How is linguistic communication possible? What is the nature of language? What is the relationship between language and the world? How do metaphors work? The Philosophy of Language, considered the essential text in its field, is an... (read more)

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A Glossary of Language and Mind
by Jean Aitchison


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This alphabetical guide to language and mind gives an up-to-date introduction to the key topics of speech comprehension, speech production and child language. Written by a well-known author in the field, the entries are concise and lucid, and provide an... (read more)

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