| Description |
v, 186 pages : illustrations ; 21cm |
| Contents |
Preface -- Signals in the dark -- The instruments of speech -- Bangs, hisses, and buzzes -- Flutes and lutes -- Sounds in action -- Sounds in space -- Adventures of an alphabet -- Words -- Sentences -- Learning foreign languages -- Language families -- The tongue of the British -- Learning Teutonic languages -- Daughter of Latin -- Piercing the iron curtain -- Malay -- The breaking of Babel -- The future of English -- Bibliography -- Appendix one -- The international phonetic alphabet -- 'narrow' and 'broad' forms -- Appendix two -- How English has changed -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography : page181 |
| Subject |
Language and languages.
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Linguistics.
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| LC no. |
65002141 |
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