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Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Rather

provides an accessible and up-to-date invitation to key concepts of modern language study.

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? T

What is language? -- Language and other animal communication systems -- Teaching human language to apes -- Language learning -- Experiments in language acquisit