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Michael Erard

Michael Erard has graduate degrees in linguistics and rhetoric from the University of Texas at Austin. He’s written about language, linguists, and linguistics for Wired, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many other publications and is a contributing writer for The Texas Observer and Design Observer. He is the author of Um…: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean.

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Babel No More
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Babel No More The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners By: Michael Erard
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: January 10, 2012
We all learn at least one language as children. But what does it take to learn six languages, twenty . . . seventy? Such feats of linguistic prowess provide a glimpse into what the human brain is capable of—and hold up a...
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Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback