The wonders of language : or how to make noises and influence people /

Ian Roberts offers a stimulating introduction to our greatest gift as a species, our capacity for articulate language. We are mostly as blissfully unaware of the intricacies of the structure of language as fish are of the water they swim in. We live in a mental ocean of nouns, verbs, quantifiers, mo...

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Main Author:	Roberts, Ian G. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Language awareness. Speech acts (Linguistics) Applied linguistics. Language acquisition. Linguistics > Study and teaching.