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LANGUAGELANGUAGERELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

What's Inside:
  • The Importance of Language
  • How Language Began: 5 Theories
  • Spoken Language
  • Written Language
  • Language Families
  • How Languages Change
  • Fun with Language
Features:
  • DIAGRAMS
  • MAPS
  • LEXILE® READING LEVEL: 940L
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"What would you do without language? Point at things you want? Tug on someone's sleeve to get that person's attention? Pantomime your plans for the future? Fortunately, and thanks to our ancestors, human beings do have language. Just how many languages, however, no one can say for sure. One group of scholars has cataloged 6,703 living languages. Some of these are spoken by millions of people. Most. . . "
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
  • The Circus of Words. By Richard Lederer, Chicago Review Press, 2001.
  • A History of the English Language (5th Edition)y Albert C. Baugh, Thomas Cable, Prentice Hall, 2001.
  • The Origins and Development of the English Language. By John Algeo and Thomas Pyles, Heinle, 2004.
  • Language : Readings in Language and Culture. By Virginia Clark, Bedford/St. Martin's, 1998.
ADULT BOOKS
  • The story of the English language. By Mario Pei, Lippincott, 1967.
  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. By David Crystal, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • The Language Instinct : How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics). By Steven Pinker, Perennial, 2000.
WEBSITES
  • Searchable Database of Language Resources: www.ethnologue.com
  • The Linguistic Society of America: www.lsadc.org