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    <namePart>Altmann, Gerry T. M.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1997</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xiii, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>In the beginning ; 1. Looking towards Babel ; 2. Babies, birth, and language ; 3. Chinchillas do it too ; 4. Words, and what we learn to do with them ; 5. Organizing the dictionary ; 6. Words, and how we (eventually) find them ; 7. Time flies like an arrow ; 8. Who did what, and to whom? ; 9. On the meaning of meaning ; 10. Exercising the vocal organs ; 11. The written word ; 12. When it all goes wrong ; 13. Wiring-up a brain ; 14. The descent from Babel ; Bibliography</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Gerry T.M. Altmann ; illustrations by Andrea Enzinger.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-252) and index.</note>
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