It takes the average reader 2 hours and 21 minutes to read The Linguistics of Punctuation by Geoffrey Nunberg
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Geoffrey Nunberg challenges a widespread assumption that the linguistic structure of written languages is qualitatively identical to that of spoken language: It should no longer be necessary to defend the view that written language is truly language, but it is surprising to learn of written-language category indicators that are realized by punctuation marks and other figural devices.' He shows that traditional approaches to these devices tend to describe the features of written language exclusively by analogy to those of spoken language, with the result that punctuation has been regarded as...
The Linguistics of Punctuation by Geoffrey Nunberg is 141 pages long, and a total of 35,391 words.
This makes it 48% the length of the average book. It also has 43% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 13 minutes to read The Linguistics of Punctuation aloud.
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