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- catalog abstract ""The Navajo Code Talkers are one of the great stories of World War II. Because the Japanese forces were intercepting and deciphering American communications, they knew their enemy's battle plans and were able to slow the Allied advance across the Pacific. But the Code Talkers brought with them a cipher the Japanese couldn't crack. They simply translated orders and reports from English into Navajo for radio transmission, and back into English at the other end. This method did more than provide secure communication. In a situation where every second counted, the Code Talkers could translate much more quickly than any expert in standard codes." "With this episode, linguist Mark Baker sets off on a fascinating exploration of one of the great mysteries of language: are all languages fundamentally the same, or are they fundamentally different? If they're all the same, why was Navajo so baffling to the Japanese cryptographers? If they're all different, why were the Code Talkers able to translate back and forth so easily - and why are small children able to learn whatever language they grow up hearing? From Zapotec to Welsh, from French to the unique Carib tongue called Hixkaryana, Baker surveys the incredible diversity of the world's languages to show how linguists are closing in on a key question: what is the true nature of language differences?"--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Atoms of language : the mind's hidden rules of grammar".
- catalog contributor b12268097.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""The Navajo Code Talkers are one of the great stories of World War II. Because the Japanese forces were intercepting and deciphering American communications, they knew their enemy's battle plans and were able to slow the Allied advance across the Pacific. But the Code Talkers brought with them a cipher the Japanese couldn't crack. They simply translated orders and reports from English into Navajo for radio transmission, and back into English at the other end. This method did more than provide secure communication. In a situation where every second counted, the Code Talkers could translate much more quickly than any expert in standard codes." "With this episode, linguist Mark Baker sets off on a fascinating exploration of one of the great mysteries of language: are all languages fundamentally the same, or are they fundamentally different? If they're all the same, why was Navajo so baffling to the Japanese cryptographers? If they're all different, why were the Code Talkers able to translate back and forth so easily - and why are small children able to learn whatever language they grow up hearing? From Zapotec to Welsh, from French to the unique Carib tongue called Hixkaryana, Baker surveys the incredible diversity of the world's languages to show how linguists are closing in on a key question: what is the true nature of language differences?"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-262) and index.".
- catalog description "The Code Talker Paradox -- The Discovery of Atoms -- Samples Versus Recipes -- Baking a Polysynthetic Language -- Alloys and Compounds -- Toward a Periodic Table of Languages -- Why Parameters?".
- catalog extent "xi, 276 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Atoms of language.".
- catalog identifier "0465005217".
- catalog isFormatOf "Atoms of language.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Basic Books,".
- catalog relation "Atoms of language.".
- catalog subject "400 21".
- catalog subject "Language and languages.".
- catalog subject "P107 .B35 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Code Talker Paradox -- The Discovery of Atoms -- Samples Versus Recipes -- Baking a Polysynthetic Language -- Alloys and Compounds -- Toward a Periodic Table of Languages -- Why Parameters?".
- catalog title "Atoms of language : the mind's hidden rules of grammar".
- catalog title "The atoms of language / Mark C. Baker.".
- catalog type "text".