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The infinite gift : how children learn and unlearn the languages of the world

Author: Charles D Yang
Publisher: New York : Scribner, ©2006.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Draws on cutting-edge scientific findings to address key issues about language development, demonstrating how human beings are born with an innate ability to speak any language but customize their communication abilities to accommodate the language that they hear.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Charles D Yang
ISBN: 0743237560 9780743237567
OCLC Number: 65644726
Description: vii, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Greatest Intellectual Feat -- Mission Improbable -- Silent Rehearsals -- Wuckoo -- Word Factory -- Colorless Green Ideas -- Twenty Questions -- The Superiority of the German Language.
Responsibility: Charles Yang.
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Draws on cutting-edge scientific findings to address key issues about language development, demonstrating how human beings are born with an innate ability to speak any language but customize their communication abilities to accommodate the language that they hear.

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