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    <title>study of language</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Yule, George</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1947-</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Cambridge University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1996</dateIssued>
    <edition>2nd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>xiii, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>1. The origins of language -- 2. The development of writing -- 3. The properties of language -- 4. Animals and human language -- 5. The sounds of language -- 6. The sound patterns of language -- 7. Words and word-formation processes -- 8. Morphology -- 9. Phrases and sentences: grammar -- 10. Syntax -- 11. Semantics -- 12. Pragmatics -- 13. Discourse analysis -- 14. Language and machines -- 15. Language and the brain -- 16. First language acquisition -- 17. Second language acquisition/learning -- 18. Sign language -- 19. Language history and change -- 20. Language varieties -- 21. Language, society and culture.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">George Yule.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-285) and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Language and languages</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Linguistics</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">P 106 .Y85 1996</classification>
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  <identifier type="isbn">052156851X (pbk.)</identifier>
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