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

Customer Reviews

Good All Rounder - By: Emma, 30 May 2007
This book provides easy going summaries of everything to do with language. Students of linguistics will find it useful as it contains a background to alll the usual things included in a linguistics degree from phonology to the origins of language. Invaluable.

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What is the point of this book? - By: D. Govan, 28 Apr 2006
Anyone expecting to find what the blurb says on this book is in for a big disappointment. There is nothing new, no opinions to chew over just a very rushed synopsis of everything that has to do with language. Anyone who has reached adulthood will know 90% of what this book contains anyway. A good 20% of the book is made up of a listing of world languages - no interesting detail just a listing.

Professor Crystal also holds the very odd view that language evolved 30,000 years ago some 30,000 years after man reached Australia. So how did that happen?

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