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Author: John McWhorter
Narrator: John McWhorter
Publisher: Teaching Company
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Running Time: 18 Hrs.


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Story of Human Language

Story of Human Language

by John McWhorter




"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psychologist Steven Pinker. There are good reasons that language fascinates us so. It not only defines humans as a species, placing us head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators, but it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries. For example:

How did different languages come to be? Why isn’t there just a single language? How does a language change, and when it does, is that change indicative of decay or growth? How does a language become extinct?

Dr. John McWhorter, one of America’s leading linguists and a frequent commentator on network television and National Public Radio, addresses these and other questions as he takes you on an in-depth, 36-lecture tour of the development of human language, showing how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago has evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today.



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  • Published: 2002
  • Number Of Lectures: 36
  • Lecture Time: 30 Min.
  • University: Stanford University
  • LearnOutLoud.com Product ID: S006743
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