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The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World.
GIC Collection at Penn Libraries
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yang, Charles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linguistics.
- Local Subjects:
- Linguistics.
- Summary:
- The ability to speak and respond in kind is one of the most spectacular of human achievements, and yet people learn how to talk effortlessly before they can tie their shoes. A preeminent researcher in language acquisition explains why.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Greatest Intellectual Feat 1
- Chapter 2 Mission Improbable 11
- Chapter 3 Silent Rehearsals 33
- Chapter 4 Wuckoo 51
- Chapter 5 Word Factory 73
- Chapter 6 Colorless Green Ideas 93
- Chapter 7 Twenty Questions 127
- Chapter 8 The Superiority of the German Language 175
- Epilogue: The Infinite Gift 217.
- ISBN:
- 9780743237567
- 0743237560
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