Bilbao, Spain

Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings

Adquisición de Lenguas en Contextos Multilingües

Master's
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Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings at UPV/EHU

Language: SpanishStudies in Spanish
Subject area: languages
University website: www.ehu.es

Definitions and quotes

Language
Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.
Acquisition
Hand, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of a human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Language
He has strangled
His language in his tears.
William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act V, scene 1, line 158.
Language
Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson, Preface to his English Dictionary.
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