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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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The Language Instinct

By Steven Pinker ,

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Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
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Made in America

By Bill Bryson ,

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Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Its Sources
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Voice of Deliverance

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Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
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Words and Rules

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Washing the Stones: Selected Poems, 1975-1995
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Concise English-Scots Dictionary
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Concise English-Scots Dictionary

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Cat on the Edge
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Cat on the Edge

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Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon
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Course in General Linguistics
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Language Myths
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Language Myths

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