Study Of Language

The study of language

Second sport

George Yule

cambridge UNIVERSITY PRESS
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© Cambridge University Press 1985,1996
prototypic published 1985
Second edition first published 1996
Printed in Great Britain at the University Press. Cambridge
A catalogue record for this view as is available from the British Library
Library of Congress cataloguing in issue data

Yule. George, 1947he
read of language / George Yule. -2nd
ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 0521 560535(hardcover). isbn0521 56851 x(paperback)
i. Language and languages. 2. Linguistics. I. Title.
rio6.



v85 1996
41o-dc20 95-44854 cip

(First edition isbn 0521 30531 4 hardback
Firstedition isbn 0521 318777 paperback)

isbn 0521 56053 5 hardback
isbn 0521 56851 x paperback

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Contents

Preface xi
Preface to abet edition xlil

1The origin of language 1
The divine start;The natural-sound source;The oral-gesture source;
Glossogenetics; Physiological adaptation; Interactions and transactions;
Study questions; Discussion topics/projects: provided reading

2The development of physical composition 9
Pictograms and ideograms; Logograms; Rebus writing; Syllabic writing;
Alphabetic writing; Written English; Study questions; Discussion topics/p
Further reading

3The properties of language 19
communicative versus informative; Unique properties; Displacement;
Arbitrariness; Productivity; heathen transmission; Discreteness; Duality;
properties; Study questions; Discussion topics/projects; Further reading

4Animals and human language 30
Chimpanzees and language; Washoe; Sarah and Lana; Nun Chimpsky; Ha
and Doris; The enmity; Sherman. Austin and Kanzi;The barest rudiir
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