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001 ocm34596856
003 OCoLC
005 20210114022335.0
008 960401s1996 enkabc j 001 0 eng
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035 $a(OCoLC)34596856
050 4 $aP118$b.N49 1996
082 04 $a401$220
100 1 $aNewson, Lesley.
245 10 $aLanguage /$cLesley Newson.
260 $aLondon :$bA & C Black,$c1996.
300 $a32 pages :$billustrations (some color), maps, portraits ;$c29 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aScience mysteries
520 $aLooks at theories about how language came about and recent research that shows how one ancestral language may be the origin of all those spoken today.
505 0 $aReal problem with language -- Early ideas -- From Babel to English -- Mother tongues -- Animal understanding -- Words -- Human sound machine -- Signs, tokens and chimps -- Learning to talk -- How children beat Babel -- This brain is made for talking -- Working out a story of long ago.
650 0 $aLanguage acquisition.
650 0 $aLanguage and languages.
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650 7 $aLanguage and languages.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00992154
653 0 $aLanguage
830 0 $aFirst graphics.$pScience mysteries.
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994 $aZ0$bP4A
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN P4A - 38 OTHER HOLDINGS