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Highly recommended picks for science library holdings, Stephen G. Alter's William Dwight Whitney And The Science Of Language (0801880203, $49.95) follows the emergence of the science of linguistics, from its emergence as an independent field of study in the Victorian era to America's pioneer of linguistics, William Dwight Whitney. Blending a biography with an e...

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