In-depth discussions about the development of human language, showing how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today. Discover how different languages come to be; why there is not a single language; how languages change; how some languages become extinct; and, discover current controversies in linguistics.
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Publisher:
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2004
ISBN:
9781565859470
1565859472
1565859472
Branch Call Number:
417.7 M4599s 2004 CD
Characteristics:
6 sound discs (ca. 180 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (74 p. ; 22 cm.)
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