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How language works
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London, UK (Times Online): Professor Crystal’s latest book is essential reading for everyone who is fascinated by language. He cheerfully admits that some of it has appeared in his earlier books. What he has done is take familiar ideas and rethink them with a focus on the “how”, rather than on the “what” or the “why”. There are no fewer than 72 chapters beginning with the word “how”: everything from how we make speech sounds to how writing differs from speech to how children “learn to mean”.
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