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Words and rules : the ingredients of language

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This text answers many questions about the amazing human ability called language.

It explains the mysteries of language by examining a single construction from a dozen viewpoints, including the history of language, its simulation by computer neural networks, the use of language as a source of wit and whimsey, the illuminating errors of children as they begin to speak, and the tragic loss of language from neurological disease.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
0753810255 / 9780753810255
Paperback / softback
401.9
16/08/2001
United Kingdom
English
xiii, 397p. : ill.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999.