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Learning about Language eBook Series

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  • An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics

    Series series Learning about Language
    Learning About Language is an exciting and ambitious series of introductions to fundamental topics in language, linguistics and related areas. The books are designed for students of linguistics and those who are studying language as part of a wider course.Cognitive Linguistics explores the idea that language reflects our experience of the world. It shows that our ability to use language is closely ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

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  • Introducing Psycholinguistics

    by Paul Warren ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics
    How humans produce and understand language is clearly introduced in this textbook for students with only a basic knowledge of linguistics. With a logical, flexible structure Introducing Psycholinguistics steps through the central topics of production and comprehension of language and the interaction between them. Students will gain an understanding of the processes and representations involved in ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

    by Xiao-lei Wang ...
    Series Book 14 - Parents' and Teachers' Guides
    This book is a guide for parents who wish to raise children with more than one language and literacy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as well as the experiences of parents of multilingual children, this book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential literacy skills at each developmental stage and proposes ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • An Introduction to Genetics for Language Scientists

    Current Concepts, Methods, and Findings

    by Dan Dediu ...
    During the last few decades we have discovered enormous amounts about our genomes, their evolution and, importantly for linguists and language scientists, the genetic foundations of language and speech. Accessible and readable, this introduction is designed specifically for students and researchers working in language and linguistics. It carefully focuses on the most relevant concepts, methods and ... Read more

    $114.79 USD

  • How Traditions Live and Die

    by Olivier Morin ...
    Series series Foundations of Human Interaction
    Of all the things we do and say, most will never be repeated or reproduced. Once in a while, however, an idea or a practice generates a chain of transmission that covers more distance through space and time than any individual person ever could. What makes such transmission chains possible? For two centuries, the dominant view (from psychology to anthropology) was that humans owe their cultural ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Language, Mind and Computation

    by P. Mondal ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores how and in what ways the relationship between language, mind and computation can be conceived of, given that a number of foundational assumptions about this relationship remain unacknowledged in mainstream linguistic theory, yet continue to be the basis of theoretical developments and empirical advances. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Rediscovering Interlanguage

    Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
    An account of the development of research and thinking in the field of learner language. Draws on wide-ranging research into contrastive analysis, bilingualism, theoretical linguistics and experimental psychology. ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters

    by Nina Hyams ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is perhaps the most stunning available demonstration of the explanatory power of the parametric approach to linguistic theory. It is akin, not to a deductive proof, but to the discovery of a footprint in a far-off place which leaves an archeologist elated. The book is full of intricate reasoning, but the stunning aspect is that the reasoning moves between not only complex syntax and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Language in Education

    Social Implications

    Teachers in any subject area must have a basic understanding of how language is learned and used in educational contexts because language impacts teaching and learning across all subjects. This book is written specifically for those teachers and teacher traineeslearning to teach who want to know more about language learning and use in educational contexts and, especially, those who care about the ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Multilingual Perspectives on Child Language Disorders

    Series Book 14 - Communication Disorders Across Languages
    This book investigates language disorders in children who speak languages other than, or in addition to, English. The chapters in the first section of the volume focus on language disorders associated with four different syndromes in multilingual populations and contexts. This section discusses language disorders associated with autism spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Beginners' Welsh

    A perfect guide for anybody wishing to learn the Welsh language. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Syntax to Discourse

    Pronominal Clitics, Null Subjects and Infinitives in Child Language

    by C. Hamann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    claim is that such morphological processes can be learnt without symbolization and innate knowledge. See Rumelhart and McClelland (1986) for the original model of past tense acquisition, Plunkett and Marchman (1993), Nakisa, Plunkett and Hahn (1996) and Elman et al. (1996) for developments and extensions to other morphological processes, and Marcus et al. (1992) and Pinker and Prince (1988) for ... Read more

    $143.09 USD