Spoken and Written Language

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Oxford University Press, 1989 - Education - 109 pages
This books identifies the important differences between speaking and writing. Halliday leads the reader from the development of speech in infancy, through an account of writing systems, to a comparative treatment of spoken and written language, contrasting the prosodic features and grammatical intricacy of speech with the high lexical density and grammatical metaphor or writing.

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One childs protolanguage
5
Writing systems
12
From ancient Egyptian to English
19
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