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Re: The Pronunciation of {hsara}

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Friday, October 15, 1999, 5:59
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, iisem :P wrote:

> > also, i've heard of a book "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language" to whom > is that book geared towards? the more learne'd of the layman? (sincere > appologies for my English) >
It's a reasonable book for the layman - won't give you a real good grounding, though, for that you perhaps have to start with one of the numerous introductions to language and linguistics. Bloomfield's Language and Lyon's Theoretical Linguistics are getting a bit long in the tooth, but Bollinger's Aspects of Language is still a reasonable choice. I once even came across A Teach Yourself Linguistics book ;-). Oh, and Describing Language... by Graddol et al is very usable, too: published by the Open University Press - I guess that that's the best book for the beginning conlanger. But by all means buy the Encyclopeadia, you will never regret it. Boudewijn Rempt | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt