What's the right way to put words together? / Introduction -- 17. Why learn about language? / Dennis R. Preston -- 2. How many languages are there in the world? / M. Paul Lewis -- 3. What's the difference between dialects and languages? / G. Tucker Childs -- 4. What was the original language? / Barry Hilton -- 5. Do all languages come from the same source? / Allan R. Bomhard -- 6. What language did Adam and Eve speak? / E.M. Rickerson -- 7. Why do languages change? / John McWhorter -- 8. Are pidgins and creoles real languages? / John M. Lipski -- 9. How many kinds of writing systems are there? / Peter T. Daniels -- 10. Where did writing come from? / Peter T. Daniels -- 11. Where does grammar come from? / Joan Bybee -- 12. Do all languages have the same grammar? / Mark C. Baker -- 13. How do babies learn their mother tongue? / Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek -- 14. Do animals use language? / Donna Jo Napoli -- 15. How does the brain cope with multiple languages? / Henk Haarmann -- 16. Does our language influence the way we think? / Geoffrey K. Pullum -- 17. What's the right way to put words together? / Dennis R. Preston -- 34. Can computers teach languages faster and better? / Frank Borchardt -- 19. Why do people fight over language? / Paul B. Garrett -- 20. What does it mean to be bilingual? / Dora Johnson -- 21. What is 'speaking in tongues'? / Walt Wolfram -- 22. What happens if you are raised without language? / Susan Curtiss -- 23. Do deaf people everywhere use the same sign language? / Susan Curtiss -- 24. Why do languages die? / Christopher Moseley -- 25. Can a threatened language be saved? / Akira Y. Yamamotot et al. -- 26. Why do American Southerners talk that way? / Walt Wolfram -- 27. What causes foreign accents? / Steven H. Weinberger -- 28. How are the sounds of language made? / Peter Ladefoged -- 29. Can monolingualism be cured? / Katherine Sprang -- 30. What does it take to learn a language well? / Nina Garrett -- 31. How has our thinking about language learning changed through the years? / June K. Phillips -- 32. Why study languages abroad? / Sheri Spaine Long -- 33. Is elementary school too early to teach foreign languages? / Gladys Lipton -- 34. Can computers teach languages faster and better? / Frank Borchardt -- 49. How many Native American languages are there? / Marianne Mithun -- 36. Is there a language crisis in the United States? / David Goldberg -- 37. Is Spanish taking over the United States? / Maria Carreira -- 38. What is Cajun and where did it come from? / Robyn Holman -- 39. Did German almost become the language of the U.S.? / Nancy P. Nenno -- 40. What's Gullah? / Elizabeth Martínez-Gibson -- 41. Are dialects dying? / Walt Wolfram -- 42. Can you make a living loving languages? / Frederick H. Jackson -- 43. How are dictionaries made? / Erin McKean -- 44. Why do we need translators if we have dictionaries? / Kevin Hendzel -- 45. How good is machine translation? / David Savignac -- 46. Can you use language to solve crimes? / Robert Rodman -- 47. How can you keep languages in a museum? / Amelia C. Murdoch -- 48. Where did English come from? / John Algeo -- 49. How many Native American languages are there? / Marianne Mithun -- 60. Index. Christopher Moseley -- 51. Who speaks Italian? / Dennis Looney -- 52. How different are Spanish and Portuguese? / Ana Maria Carvalho -- 53. Should we be studying Russian? / Benjamin Rifkin -- 54. What's exciting about Icelandic? / Pardee Lowe Jr. -- 55. Do all Arabs speak the same language? / Jerry Lampe -- 56. Is Swahili the language of Africa? / Donald Osborn -- 57. Do you have to be a masochist to study Chinese? / Barry Hilton -- 58. Is studying Japanese worth the effort? / Blaine Erickson -- 59. Whatever happened to Esperanto? / E.M. Rickerson -- 60. Does anybody here speak Klingon? / Christopher Moseley -- Scripts and audio files for Talkin' About Talk -- Index.
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