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Author Crystal, David, 1941-

Title The Cambridge encyclopedia of language / David Crystal
Edition Second edition
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Description 480 pages : illustrations (color) ; 27 cm
Summary The second edition of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language incorporates extensive new research in areas such as speech synthesis and recognition, acoustics, machine translation, natural language processing, endangered languages, language teaching and World English. In addition there is new and revised material on the number of speakers of languages, revised geopolitical data, new language distribution maps and a new table of world languages. The book has been redesigned to suit the needs of present-day readers and is printed in full colour for the first time
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 451-458
Subject Language and languages -- Dictionaries.
Linguistics -- Dictionaries.
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
LC no. 96003104
ISBN 0521559677 paperback
0521550505