Does anybody here speak Klingon? / Christopher Moseley. You're a linguist? How many languages do you speak? / Paul Chapin -- How many languages are there in the world? / M. Paul Lewis -- What's the difference between dialects and languages? / G. Tucker Childs -- What was the original language? / Barry Hilton -- Do all languages come from the same source? / Allan R. Bomhard -- What language did Adam and Eve speak? / E.M. Rickerson -- Do languages have to change? / John McWhorter -- What are lingua francas? / Nicholas Ostler -- Isn't pidgin English just bad English? / John M. Lipski -- How many kinds of writing systems are there? / Peter T. Daniels -- Where did writing come from? / Peter T. Daniels -- Where does grammar come from? / Joan Bybee -- Do all languages have the same grammar? / Mark C. Baker -- How do babies learn their mother tongue? / Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek -- Do animals use language? / Donna Jo Napoli -- How does the brain cope with multiple languages? / Henk Haarmann -- Does our language influence the way we think? / Geoffrey K. Pullum -- What's the right way to put words together? / Dennis R. Preston -- Is British English the best English? / Orin Hargraves -- Why do people fight over language? / Paul B. Garrett -- What does it mean to be bilingual? / Dora Johnson -- How many languages can a person learn? / Richard Hudson -- What is 'speaking in tongues'? / Walt Wolfram -- What happens if you are raised without language? / Susan Curtiss -- Do deaf people everywhere use the same sign language? / Leila Monaghan -- Why do languages die? / Christopher Moseley -- Can a threatened language be saved? / Akira Y. Yamamoto [et. al] -- How are the sounds of language made? / Peter Ladefoged -- Why do American southerners talk that way? / Walt Wolfram -- What causes foreign accents? / Steven H. Weinberger -- Can monolingualism be cured? / Katherine Sprang -- What does it take to learn a language well? / Nina Garrett -- How have our ideas about language learning changed through the years? / June K. Phillips -- Why study languages abroad? / Sheri Spaine Long -- Is elementary school too early to teach foreign languages? / Gladys C. Lipton -- Can computers teach languages faster and better? / Sue E.K. Otto -- What's the language of the United States? / David Goldberg -- Is there a language crisis in the United States? / Catherine Ingold -- What's the future of Spanish in the United States? / Maria Carreira -- What is Cajun and where did it come from? / Robyn Holman -- Did German almost become the language of the United States? / Nancy P. Nenno -- What's Gullah? / Elizabeth Martinez-Gibson -- Are dialects dying? / Walt Wolfram -- Can you make a living loving languages? / Frederick H. Jackson -- How are dictionaries made? / Erin McKean -- Why do we need translators if we have dictionaries? / Kein Hendzel -- How good is machine translation? / David Savignac -- Can you use language to solve crimes? / Robert Rodman -- How can you keep languages in a museum? / Amelia C. Murdoch -- Where did English come from? / John Algeo -- How many Native American languages are there? / Marianne Mithun -- Is Latin really dead? / Frank Morris -- Who speaks Italian? / Dennis Looney -- How different are Spanish and Portuguese? / Ana Maria Carvalho -- Should we be studying Russian? / Benjamin Rifkin -- What's exciting about Icelandic? / Pardee Lowe Jr. -- What's the difference between Hebrew and Yiddish? / Neil G. Jacobs -- Do all Arabs speak the same language? / Jerry Lampe -- Is Swahili the language of Africa? / Donald Osborn -- Do you have to be a masochist to study Chinese? / Barry Hilton -- Is studying Japanese worth the effort? / Blaine Erickson -- What's the language of India? / Vijay Gambhir -- Whatever happened to Esperanto? / Arika Okrent, E.M. Rickerson -- Does anybody here speak Klingon? / Christopher Moseley.
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