La bella Lingua : my love affair with Italian, the world's most enchanting language
by: Dianne Hales
A celebration of the language and culture of Italy, La Bella Lingua is the story of how a language shaped a nation, told against the backdrop of one woman’s personal quest to speak fluent Italian.(Publisher's Marketing)
By: Dean Falk
Far more than soothing nonsense, the baby talk a mother coos to her infant provides Falk with a key for explaining the origin of language. This explanation focuses not—as other theorists’ speculations have—on the evolution of speech since the emergence of Homo sapiens. Instead, Falk highlights the much earlier evolutionary...(Booklist)
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