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  • Language Acquisition and Development

    A Generative Introduction

    by Misha Becker, Kamil Ud Deen ...
    An introduction to the study of children's language development that provides a uniquely accessible perspective on generative/universal grammar–based approaches.How children acquire language so quickly, easily, and uniformly is one of the great mysteries of the human experience. The theory of Universal Grammar suggests that one reason for the relative ease of early language acquisition is that ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure

    Animacy and Thematic Alignment

    by Misha Becker ...
    Series Book 141 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    This book explains a well-known puzzle that helped catalyze the establishment of generative syntax: how children tease apart the different syntactic structures associated with sentences like John is easy/eager to please. The answer lies in animacy: taking the premise that subjects are animate, the book argues that children can exploit the occurrence of an inanimate subject as a cue to a non ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • The Meme Machine

    by Susan Blackmore ...
    Series series Popular Science
    Humans are extraordinary creatures, with the unique ability among animals to imitate and so copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviours, inventions, songs, and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Memes, like genes, are replicators, and this enthralling book is an investigation of whether this link between genes and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Language Myth

    Why Language Is Not an Instinct

    by Vyvyan Evans ...
    Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique human 'instinct' pre-programmed in us from birth. In this book, Vyvyan Evans argues that this received wisdom is, in fact, a myth. Debunking the notion of a language 'instinct', Evans demonstrates that language is related to other ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

    Edited by Julia Herschensohn, Martha Young-Scholten ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    What is language and how can we investigate its acquisition by children or adults? What perspectives exist from which to view acquisition? What internal constraints and external factors shape acquisition? What are the properties of interlanguage systems? This comprehensive 31-chapter handbook is an authoritative survey of second language acquisition (SLA). Its multi-perspective synopsis on recent ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas

    Papua New Guinea Studies

    by Geoffrey B. Saxe ...
    Series series Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
    Drawing upon field studies conducted in 1978, 1980 and 2001 with the Oksapmin, a remote Papua New Guinea group, Geoffrey B. Saxe traces the emergence of new forms of numerical representations and ideas in the social history of the community. In traditional life, the Oksapmin used a counting system that makes use of twenty-seven parts of the body; there is no evidence that the group used arithmetic ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Referential Communication Tasks

    by George Yule ...
    Series series Second Language Acquisition Research Series
    Referential communication is the term given to communicative acts, generally spoken, in which some kind of information is exchanged between one speaker and another. This information exchange is typically dependent on successful acts of reference, whereby entities (human and non-human) are identified (by naming or describing), are located or moved relative to other entities (by giving instructions ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • How Language Began

    Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution

    by David McNeill ...
    Series series Approaches to the Evolution of Language
    Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book to explain how speech and ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning

    A Sociocultural Perspective

    by Leo van Lier ...
    Series Book 3 - Educational Linguistics
    In this book I try to give a coherent and consistent overview of what an ecological approach to language learning might look like. This is not a fully fledged grand theory that aims to provide an explanation of everything, but an attempt to provide a rationale for taking an ecological world view and applying it to language education, which I regard as one of the most important of all human ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies

    A Pragma-dialectical Perspective

    by Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst ...
    This volume gives a theoretical account of the problem of analyzing and evaluating argumentative discourse. After placing argumentation in a communicative perspective, and then discussing the fallacies that occur when certain rules of communication are violated, the authors offer an alternative to both the linguistically-inspired descriptive and logically-inspired normative approaches to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

    Edited by Dirk Geeraerts, Hubert Cuyckens ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. The first twenty chapters give readers the opportunity to acquire a thorough knowledge of the fundamental analytic concepts and descriptive models of Cognitive ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century

    The Literary Agenda

    by Maryanne Wolf ...
    Series series The Literary Agenda
    The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is ... Read more

    $18.99 USD