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The origin of speech.
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Otto Jespersen, a famous Danish linguist, thought that the problem of speech could be solved by investigations in the following three fields: the language of children, the languages of primitive peoples and the history of language.
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A Course in Modern Linguistics
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The World's Writing Systems
The World's Writing Systems meets the need for a definitive volume on the major historical and modern writing systems of the world. Comprising more than eighty articles contributed by expert scholars…
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Two Models of Grammatical Description
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Animal languages and human language.
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The only way to find out how human language differs from any variety of communicative behavior manifested by non-human or pre-human species is to itemize those design-features of human language which seem to be of crucial importance in making it possible for language to do what it does.
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A Manual of Phonology
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In Search of Jove's Brow.
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Problems of Morphemic Analysis
This operation does not constitute all of grammatical analysis: when it is completed, there remains the task of describing the arrangements in which the minimum meaningful elements occur, and-where…
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WHERE THE TONGUE SLIPS, THERE SLIP 1
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The Quantification of Functional Load
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